Nadine Cross quotes from The Stand

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Scenes with Nadine Cross 9

[Settling down to a rare steak dinner in the city, Larry and Nadine duck when they hear a gunshot.]

Nadine Cross

Oh, I think I lost my appetite.

We gotta get outta here.

Nadine Cross

I beg your pardon?

I mean, we gotta get outta the city. I mean, it's not just the odds of getting shot. You have any idea what it's going to smell like in two weeks? Five million people rotting in the July sun!

Nadine Cross

Ohhh-kay.

[Nadine pulls out a bottle of pills, but Larry stops her from taking any.]

What is that?!

Nadine Cross

Vitamin C.

Yeah, I'm sorry. It's none of my business.

Nadine Cross

Apology accepted...mostly because I think you're right. The Big Apple is baked.

Part II: The Dreams

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[Larry and Nadine argue over her refusal to enter the Lincoln Tunnel; she pulls out a bottle of pills, but he snatches them]

And you've had plenty of those, thank you very much!

Nadine Cross

Hey! Give that back!

No, ma'am. I'm not gonna stand here in the middle of five million dead people and watch you commit suicide! [throws pills away]

Nadine Cross

NOOOO! [slaps him] How dare you! [storms off]

Okay. Where're you going?

Nadine Cross

Going to the George Washington Bridge! By myself!

Pfft. I don't need this prima donna act… Missy! I really don't! You have fun… getting raped and murdered back on 7th Avenue! Sweetheart!

Part II: The Dreams

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[Nadine dreams of the Dark Man.]

Nadine Cross

So… cold! No! He's warm, not you!

But I'm the one you belong to, Nadine. You are the Promised One.

Nadine Cross

[petulantly] Why me? Who promised?

Part II: The Dreams

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[Nadine has another dream about Flagg.]

Nadine Cross

I'm here. I came to you.

The bride cometh to the bridegroom as a flame to the wick of a lamp.

Nadine Cross

Is that the Bible?

Hmm, Danielle Steele, I think.

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[Nadine, her back turned to Mother Abagail, is next in the new arrivals' greeting line.]

[Sharply] Who's this woman who comes?!

[Nadine turns to look at the old woman.]

[in Nadine's mind] Go to her!

Nadine Cross

My name is Nadine Cross.

[Warily] Mayhap it is, and mayhap it ain't!

Nadine Cross

I'm from New York.

Mayhap you are…

Nadine Cross

[muttering] Mayhap I ain't.

[She looks up.]

Nadine Cross

I won't keep you long.

[She slowly climbs the steps toward Abagail.]

Nadine Cross

You look so tired. Of course, anyone your age is bound to tire easily, isn't that so?

[She holds out her hand, but Joe rushes past her to hug Mother Abagail.]

Hello, Joe, what'd'ya know? [laughs]

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[Harold is working on explosives in his basement, listening to "Boogie Fever". Nadine tries to get his attention by killing the music.]

HLHarold Lauder

What the hell are you doing? Don't screw with my disco, Nadine!

Nadine Cross

Is everything all right?

HLHarold Lauder

No.

[He holds up three sticks of dynamite, taped together and fused.]

HLHarold Lauder

If I had dropped this, you would be washing my guts out of your pretty white hair for the next two weeks.

Nadine Cross

I'm sorry.

HLHarold Lauder

Let me make a suggestion, my little disco queen. Take a walk.

Nadine Cross

Take a walk?

HLHarold Lauder

Yes! A walk. Because, you see, I have no idea how old this stuff is. I do know that old dynamite sweats pure nitroglycerin. So, take a walk, and, if you hear a very loud bang, that will probably be me going to that great disco inferno in the sky. Make like a library, and book.

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[After Nadine conceals the bomb in Frannie's closet, she returns to Harold.]

HLHarold Lauder

Nadine?

Nadine Cross

What?

HLHarold Lauder

We're damned.

Nadine Cross

Yes. I know.

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[Nadine finally meets Flagg, physically, in the desert.]

Nadine Cross

I waited so long.

The waiting's over.

Part IV: The Stand

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[Nadine stands at the balcony railing of Flagg's hotel suite.]

Nadine Cross

They're coming for you, you know. The old woman sent them before she died.

Get your ass back in here.

Nadine Cross

Everything you've made here is falling apart. They're saying a simple retarded boy outwitted Randall Flagg. They're saying Judge Farris got away from your man in Idaho.

He's as dead as Judas Iscariot.

Nadine Cross

They're asking questions about Dayna, too. It's all slipping through your fingers. And they're whispering, Randy. I can see them, leaving their posts in the dead of night, and your eye can't see them. [sits on railing] And when they come here — Stu… and Ralph… and Glen… and La— when they get here, your time will end, and I'll be watching. I'll be watching from Hell, with your baby in my arms. [stands on railing]

[uneasily] Come back in, Nadine. I'll give you everything you could ever want.

Nadine Cross

[laughing mockingly] Can you give me Larry again?

[Flagg's face becomes demonic.]

Nadine Cross

Your seed is cold. [falls over railing]