The Crucible (1996)
Winona Ryder: Abigail Williams
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Quotes
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Abigail : Listen to me, John. I have money. We could see tomorrow on the ocean. The jailer will let you go. Let me call him. I must board ship, John. Will you not speak?
John Proctor : It's not on a ship we'll meet again, Abigail, but in Hell.
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Betty Parris : I want my mama.
Abigail Williams : Your mama's dead and buried.
Betty Parris : I'll find her! Let me fly! Mama! No!
Abigail Williams : Why are you doing this? I told you, he knows now.
Betty Parris : You drank blood Abby. Did you tell him that?
[Abby slaps Betty]
Abigail Williams : Don't you ever say that again!
Betty Parris : You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!
[Abby throws Betty on the bed and starts hitting her]
Abigail Williams : Shut up! All of you. We danced. That is all, and mark this, if anyone breathe a word or the edge of a word about the other things, I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you! And you know I can do it. I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine. And I have seen some reddish work done at night. And I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
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John Proctor : Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time, but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
Abigail Williams : Ay, but we did.
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Abigail Williams : A women comes to my bed every night now and tears out my eyes.
Judge Danforth : Can you make out who she may be?
Abigail Williams : I believe she be Reverend John Hale's wife sir.
Judge Danforth : You must be mistaken my child. The wife of a minister be unlikely...
Abigail Williams : Satan may reach anyone sir.
Judge Sewall : Absolutely no one in the world is safe? Is that your meaning?
Judge Danforth : You are mistaken child. Understand me?
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Abigail : I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.
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Reverend Parris : Why did Goody Proctor discharge you from her service?
Abigail Williams : Because I refused to be her slave.
Reverend Parris : I have heard said that John Proctor and you...
Abigail Williams : My name is good in the village! Elizabeth Proctor is an envious, gossipy liar!
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Abigail : Let *you* beware, Mr. Danforth. Do you think yourself so mighty the Devil may not turn *your* wits?
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Abigail : We did dance and let me be whipped if I must be.
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Reverend Parris : Now hear me, child. You must know that there is a faction in this church sworn to drive me from my pulpit.
Abigail : I know that, sir.
Reverend Parris : And they will destroy me now if my own house turns out to be the center of some obscene practice. Now, I saw someone naked running through the trees.
Abigail : No one was.
Reverend Parris : Don't lie to me! I saw it!
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Abigail : I know how you sweated like a stallion whenever I'd come near you. I saw your face when she put me out. You loved me then, and you do now.
John Proctor : Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time - but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
Abigail : Aye, but we did.
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Abigail : Some nights I wake and I find myself standing naked in the open doorway without a stitch on my body, and she makes me do that singing her damn Barbados songs, tempting me!
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Abigail : Oh, John. Give me a soft word.
John Proctor : No, Abby. That's done with.
Abigail : I am waitin' for you every night.
John Proctor : You cannot. I never gave you hope to wait for me.
Abigail : I have something better than hope, I think.
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Abigail : I suffer now. It's the truth, John, look! The bite your wife gave me is not yet healed.
John Proctor : My wife?
Abigail : Saturday she come into my bed in the middle of the night and bited my breast.
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John Proctor : Here's a whore, Mr. Danforth!
Abigail : He lies!
John Proctor : She'll stab me with a scream, but she is a whore!
