Selena Coombs quotes from American Gothic

Selena

[to Lucas] Well, if you gonna scream, at least come into the bedroom.

Selena

[teasing Gail] He’s got strange taste, doesn't he, Miss Emory?

Lucas

You told me this was handled.

Selena

Well I'm sorry Lucas, but I just couldn't hurt him.

Lucas

So you kept him as a pet?

Selena

I liked him, okay? To tell you the truth he kind of liked me.

Lucas

This is a real problem, Selena.

Selena

Well look, if the doctor finds him before we do, maybe it's not such a bad thing. Raphael hasn't been eating lately and I've been kinda worried about him.

Lucas

Raphael is a reporter and he's gonna report things.

Selena

He won't say a word.

Lucas

Oh really? What you do, bite off his tongue in a fit of passion?

Miss Combs?

Selena

Oh, thank you Judge. Well, I'd just like to say for the record, that I admire Miss Emory tremendously. I mean, when she told my class about living in a crack house for two weeks, just to do a first person story and how scary it was, they were all very impressed. I know I wouldn't have that kind of courage.

Selena

Maybe we'd like to take another pass at this? [indicating Caleb's friend's homework]

Caleb

But we've got practice, the contest is tomorrow.

Selena

Well I'm aware of that Caleb, but I think this is more important, don't you?

Caleb

No!

Lucas

It's no secret Hac Weller had a thing for you.

Selena

Well so do you, when the mood strikes.

Lucas

You should be flattered.

Selena

I make the effort. So when some man doesn't come home to his little wife, he must have been with me, is that it?

Lucas

In a world of possibilities... it's a short reach.

Selena

Well then the next time the mood strikes, I suggest you reach for yourself.

Lucas

I'm...

Selena

Scared?

Lucas

Is this what scared feels like?

Selena

I wouldn't know.

Lucas

I wanna hurt somebody, with this feeling. I wanna hurt you.

Selena

As long as I get to hurt you back.

Lucas

Evening, Miss Combs. Feeling suicidal?

Selena

What?

Lucas

Care to join me in a little masochistic nihilism?

Lucas

Caleb, this... romantic love thing.

Selena

What do you know about it?

Lucas

From observation, quite a bit. It's really an addiction. No different than booze or drugs or cigarettes. And when you're in its clutches you no longer see the truth. You become totally selfish.

Selena

Look who's talking.

Lucas

And selfless at the same time. It makes you... stupid. Take Miss Coombs here.

Caleb

She's not stupid.

Selena

Thank you, darling.

Lucas

In love you've got to go straight to the heart.

Selena

That's why they invented the dagger.

Selena

What did you do, Lucas?

Lucas

You know me better than that love. I don't do anything. Things just happen.

Selena

Lucas wrote the book on keeping women in the palm of his hand.

Gail

What page are you on?

Selena

Oh, Lucas keeps me in an entirely different library.

Gail

The public?