Les diaboliques (1955)
Simone Signoret: Nicole Horner
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Quotes
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Christina Delassalle : Don't you believe in Hell?
Nicole Horner : Not since I was seven.
Christina Delassalle : I do.
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Michel Delassalle : [embarrassing Christina in the dining room while she is trying to eat some distasteful fish] Everyone is looking at you. Swallow.
Nicole Horner : It's disgusting!
Michel Delassalle : Sorry?
Nicole Horner : [angrily] Some things are hard to swallow, and I'm not talking about the fish.
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M.Drain, professeur : [Noticing Nicole wearing sun glasses] Do your eyes hurt you, dear colleague?
Nicole Horner : I hurt myself getting up.
M.Drain, professeur : You're up early. Last night, I was doing my rounds about 4:00 am and I heard screams coming out of your room. The chaste woman loves to contemplate dawn, doesn't she?
Nicole Horner : You spent too much time with the Jesuits.
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Michel Delassalle : A sick person shouldn't worry about her appearance.
Christina Delassalle : I'm not sick.
Nicole Horner : She's delicate, you know it.
Michel Delassalle : Delicate? Yes, when she came from Caracas. Today, she's a cute little ruin. She doesn't risk anything. Ruins are indestructible. She'll bury us all. Won't you, my little ruin?
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Nicole Horner : [to Christina] I won't have any regrets.
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Nicole Horner : [handing Christina the phone] Here, take it. It doesn't bite. It doesn't slap, either.
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Christina Delassalle : There is only one possible end. We are monsters. I don't like monsters.
Nicole Horner : If it's only him, I feel better. I'll save the grain of sand falling from the hands of providence for my morality lessons.
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Christina Delassalle : So it's a coincidence?
Nicole Horner : A coincidence, yes.
Christina Delassalle : And Fichet. Was his being at the morgue a coincidence? And the suit. And the hotel. And now the children! Is it a coincidence that it's getting closer and closer?
