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Sarah Roberts: She's that kind of a woman. She's... European.
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Alice Cavender: What's wrong with him?
Miriam Blaylock: He'll be all right. He's having trouble sleeping.
Alice Cavender: Want some 'ludes? I've got some in my case.
Miriam Blaylock: What?
Alice Cavender: Quaaludes.
Miriam Blaylock: Alice!
Alice Cavender: I stole 'em from my stepmother.
Miriam Blaylock: Alice!
Alice Cavender: She doesn't care; she gets them by the gross! She's got every pill ever invented! She collects them.
Miriam Blaylock: Poor woman.
Alice Cavender: That's what my dad says. 'Cause she's scared of getting old.
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John Blaylock: Forever?
Miriam Blaylock: What?
John Blaylock: Forever and ever.
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Sarah Roberts: What's that piece you're playing?
Miriam Blaylock: It's "Lakme" by Delibes. Lakme is a Brahmin princess in India, she has a slave named Malika.
Sarah Roberts: Malika...
Miriam Blaylock: In a magical garden they sing how they follow the stream to its source, gliding over the water.
Sarah Roberts: Is it a love song?
Miriam Blaylock: I told you, it was sung by two women.
Sarah Roberts: It sounds like a love song.
Miriam Blaylock: Then I suppose that's what it is.
Sarah Roberts: Are you making a pass at me, Mrs. Blaylock?
Miriam Blaylock: Miriam.
Sarah Roberts: Miriam.
Miriam Blaylock: Not that I'm aware of, Sarah.
[Sarah smiles, shakes her head, and then spills wine on her top]
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Lieutenant Allegrezza: Lieutenant Allegrezza.
Miriam Blaylock: [smiles]
Lieutenant Allegrezza: I don't usually get a smile on that...
Miriam Blaylock: You should: this mean "good cheer."
Lieutenant Allegrezza: That's right.
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[first lines]
John Blaylock: No ice.
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[last lines]
Miriam Blaylock: Sarah!
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Lillybelle: Excuse me, make it to Lillybelle.
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John Blaylock: You said forever. Never ending. Do you remember?
Miriam Blaylock: Everyday.
John Blaylock: Forever you said.
Miriam Blaylock: Forever and ever.
John Blaylock: Never growing old. Do you? Remember?
Miriam Blaylock: Stop it.
John Blaylock: Forever young.
Miriam Blaylock: Stop it.
John Blaylock: Kiss. Kiss me. Think of me as I was. Kiss me like that.
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Miriam Blaylock: There is no release, my darling. No rest. No letting go.
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Miriam Blaylock: Humankind dies one way, we another. Their end is final. Ours is not. In the earth, in rotting wood, in the eternal darkness, we will see and hear and feel.
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Sarah Roberts: I don't know why I'm here.
Miriam Blaylock: Come in.
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Sarah Roberts: I like your pendent.
Miriam Blaylock: Its Egyptian. It was the symbol of everlasting life.
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Miriam Blaylock: You belong to me. We belong to each other.
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Miriam Blaylock: Its not nearly as difficult as you imagined, is it?
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Miriam Blaylock: You're a part of me now and I cannot let you go.
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John Blaylock: Dr. Roberts.
Sarah Roberts: Yeah.
John Blaylock: You Iet me down.
Sarah Roberts: Beg your pardon?
John Blaylock: You didn't beIieve me. You made me sit here for over two hours.
Sarah Roberts: Mr. BIayIock?
John Blaylock: You had your meeting to go to. Fifteen minutes, you said. You Iied. Just thought I was some ridicuIous oId crank.
Sarah Roberts: Mr. BIayIock, wait, pIease.
John Blaylock: Wait? I can't wait.
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John Blaylock: PIease pIay the LaIo for me, even if it is a IittIe saccharine.
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Miriam Blaylock: My husband is not here.
Sarah Roberts: When wiII he be back?
Miriam Blaylock: He's gone to SwitzerIand.
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Miriam Blaylock: l'm sure we could talk for hours, you and l, but l suppose you're very busy.
Sarah Roberts: No, not too busy. What about you?
Miriam Blaylock: Me? You wouId think me mostIy idIe, I'm afraid. My time is my own.
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Tom Haver: What's that?
Sarah Roberts: What?
Tom Haver: The chain around your neck.
Sarah Roberts: It's an ankh. It's Egyptian. Miriam gave it to me. Mrs. BIayIock. The woman that I went to see this afternoon.
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Tom Haver: I think you shouId see a doctor.
Sarah Roberts: I am a doctor.
Tom Haver: And so am I.
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Sarah Roberts: What have you done to me?
Miriam Blaylock: I've given you something you never dared dream of.
Sarah Roberts: What?
Miriam Blaylock: EverIasting Iife.
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Sarah Roberts: I'm getting out of here.
Miriam Blaylock: You'II be back. When The Hunger hurts so much you've Iost reason, then you'II have to feed, and then you'II need me to show you how.
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Sarah Roberts: [on the phone] May I speak to Dr. Tom Haver, pIease? What do you mean he's gone home? No, but he's not there. I aIready caIIed the apartment. No, he can't caII me. I'm in a booth.
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2nd Phone Booth Youth: Hey, lady, how 'bout it?
1st Phone Booth Youth: Come on, Iady. How 'bout it? Huh?
[Sarah runs away]
1st Phone Booth Youth: Crazy fuckin' junkie.
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Miriam Blaylock: I'm going to bring someone to you. Someone who can feed your Hunger.
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Miriam Blaylock: We're damned to live forever - with no release, no end.
The Hunger Quotes
Extended Reading
