Penelope quotes from The Purge

Penelope

You broke my heart. I just didn't want to be around for you to fix it.

Penelope

What is this place?

This place? It's like the McDonalds of Purge.

Penelope

Let go of me!

You little bitch. You almost ruined everything. But right now we can have the trial. Just the two of us. Thank you for holding the door.

Penelope

It's a little late for that now. We give people one strike in this country now?

Don't talk to me about what we do in this country. Where the hell were you born?

Penelope

Staten Island.

What about your parents?

Penelope

What difference does that make? This is our home.

This country used to be a place where everybody could thrive.

Penelope

Not everybody.

All that hope and change bullshit didn't get us anywhere. America was circling the drain until the Purge. Suddenly each of us had the power to make things better and we did.

Penelope

At gunpoint?

At every point.

Penelope

No. I woke up today convinced that my life only had value if I was a victim. I was wrong.

Oh, come on. You know you don't have it in you to be anything else. When the rains come and flood this rock, will you... Sink or swim? Will you drown? Or fight your way to shore.

Penelope

Yeah, Bobby Sheridan. Tavis played us his lectures. Said we needed to understand why Purgers are broken, so we can learn how to help them.

Then you know exactly why I'm doing this.

Penelope

I do. I just don't know why you believe it will help. Because for me, it can't get any worse.

God bless America, where I have the freedom to decide for myself what's right and the freedom to change my circumstances.

Penelope

This might be your America, but it's not mine.

Right now it's the only one that matters.

Penelope

No. The country you're destroying... I want to help rebuild. And I'm not the only one.

Huh.

Penelope

I see people that fight everyday to protect this country, even after it took everything from them. And I see people... complete strangers... picking each other up, not tearing each other down. And I see other people... desperate, angry people... hurting each other every year because they've been manipulated into doing it. So Purge all you want. But when you're done, what will be left? A nation of murderers. If Purging really worked... if everyone actually got better... wouldn't we stop needing it?

Like our great nation, I will be reborn. [Miguel enters the pool hall and shoots Joe, with Penelope running up to Miguel in embrace]

Miguel

It's ok. It's over. It's all over. [Joe attacks Miguel with Penelope striking him the a net rod and the Purge concluding alarm blares]

God damn it! It wasn't supposed to end this way! I was so looking forward to this morning, my clean slate.

Miguel

What the fuck are you talking about?!

I failed. All that work I did and almost none of it went right. Just like life. God damn it. Now we get back to normal. Come on. Without rules... We're animals. I'm a law-abiding citizen. The Purge is over. [Hands him gun] Take it. Take your sister and go home.

Penelope

Let's go.

I'll catch up with you guys next year.

Miguel

Next year?

Yeah. Next Purge. I'll finish it with both of you. [Miguel shoots him twice] Miguel, it's murder. [Miguel kicks him into the pool]

You'll do a lot of good work on Purge night, but you won't be able to get it all done. You'll taste failure. People will always surprise you when they don't want to die.