20 Best Luciana Galvez Quotes

[Luciana prepares Nick for their assignment outside the wall]
Luciana: We've got some walking to do, so we better get things clear. One, around the dead, you stay absolutely quiet. Two, around me, you stay absolutely quiet. Three, when we get where we're going, we're gonna see some real motherfuckers. Unless I tell you, you stay...
Nick: Absolutely quiet. Yeah, okay.
Luciana: Put on your makeup. I can smell you from here.
Nick: [Luciana and Nick start covering themselves with the Infected blood] So one thing before I can't talk anymore. Why me?
Luciana: Because, gringuito, nobody's gonna miss you.

[Nick talks to Luciana about his parents]
Luciana: What about your parents?
Nick: Well, my mom was with my sister when I left.
Luciana: Your father?
Nick: He's gone, but before.
Luciana: I'm sorry.
Nick: It's okay. We've all lost someone.

[Alejandro tells Luciana he's not immune]
Luciana: What are you talking about?
Alejandro: I am not immune.
Luciana: [Luciana feels Alejandro's forehead] You're warm.

[Nick tells Luciana that they have to leave]
Luciana: What is it?
Nick: I'm leaving. We're leaving. Faith is not going to protect us when the shooting starts.

[Luciana sees Nick concerned at the Colonia]
Luciana: What is it?
Nick: [Nick pauses] Just worried about time. We don't have a lot.
Luciana: It is faith what matters most. It is this what will protect us.

[Alejandro tells Luciana the truth about the story of him being bit]
Alejandro: You saw what you wanted to see. I was bitten by the boy. The addict I tried to save. People told a story they wanted to believe. I didn't disabuse them of it.
Luciana: I told the story, not people. Me, my brother. You let us believe you. Why?
Alejandro: When they started to rally around me, I knew that we could build this place to protect ourselves.
Nick: You mean they could build it to protect you.
Alejandro: I have fear. I didn't want to die. And I knew I would out there. But more people survived because of this place. More people survived than died because of my lie.
Nick: No one survives what's coming, okay? Look, I'm sure as shit not committing suicide for a fraud.

[Luciana and Nick enter Marco's grocery store with one shopping cart]
Luciana: Come on, let's shop.

[Nick tells Luciana that she doesn't have to go on assignment with him]
Nick: Luciana, your boyfriend just died.
Luciana: [Luciana tears up] He was my brother.
Nick: Jesus, I'm so sorry.
Luciana: One matters more than the other?

[Luciana takes Nick to Marco's grocery store]
Nick: [as Nick sees armed men along the street] Who are these guys?
Luciana: They're a gang. One of many. They control East Tijuana. All goods, all supplies come here.
Nick: They're drug dealers.
Luciana: They deal with everything now. And they will hang you for looking at them wrong.
Marco: [Marco smiles at the front entrance] Welcome to Marco's.

[Luciana and Nick have their first fight about Nick's doubt in Alejandro]
Luciana: Alejandro has always known what to do, gringuito. From the beginning.
Nick: [Nick gets in Luciana's face] Hey, stop calling me that.
Luciana: I will stop calling you that...
Nick: [as Luciana starts cursing at Nick in Spanish] Oh, curse me in English. Come on.
Luciana: Ungrateful bastard!
Nick: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Luciana: Asshole!

[Luciana tells Alejandro that he failed his people]
Luciana: [in Spanish] Did you think that this day might happen? That this day might come?
Alejandro: [in Spanish] This is the only home we have. Beyond these walls there is only death and more death. I did what I could to keep us together. I tried to save us.
Luciana: [in Spanish] Well, you failed.
Alejandro: [in Spanish] Nick's right. This is ending.
Luciana: [in Spanish] Not for us. Only for you. Lie to them again before you go.

[Luciana tells Alejandro that he is dead to her]
Alejandro: Lucy.
Alejandro: [in Spanish] I brought you here under false pretenses... but the love you feel is real. You are my daughter. And you...
Luciana: [in Spanish] I have lost so many.
Alejandro: [in Spanish] I know.
Luciana: [in Spanish] And when someone is dead to me, I let them go.

[Luciana sees Nick for the first time through her binoculars, as he walks with an Infected herd]
Luciana: [in Spanish] It's not him.
Francisco: [in Spanish] Then let's help him.
Luciana: [in Spanish] No, Francisco.
Francisco: [in Spanish] But he was walking with them.
Luciana: [Luci looks back in her binoculars only to see Nick collapse, in Spanish] Not anymore.

[Luciana warns Nick that the water is bad]
Luciana: [in Spanish] The water's worse than the bandages.
Nick: Sorry?

[Nick scores a soccer goal against Luciana and the other kids]
Nick: [Nick screams] Goal! Whoo!
Luciana: You were an illegal substitution.
Nick: Take it up with the referee. Goal!
Luciana: [Luciana smiles, saying to Nick in Spanish] You're a disaster.

[Luciana tells Nick that the Colonia is her home and she's not leaving]
Luciana: This place, this is what matters. This is my home, like I've never known one.
Nick: But you don't have to die for it.
Luciana: I'm not planning on dying. The faith we have, it has protected us. It's a lie. It doesn't mean it hasn't worked. We have fared better here than out in the world. Better than we fared even before this all started. For most of us this is the first time we have a place, a family.
Luciana: [Luciana cries as she holds onto Nick] I'm not leaving.

[Luciana talks to Nick about her mother]
Luciana: When everyone began to die, we sent for our mother, but we lost contact with Mama when she was south of the city.
Nick: We should look for her.
Luciana: We have. Pablo did. And he helped me find peace when she joined the dead.
Luciana: [Luciana tears up] But now I don't know what to do.

[Luciana tells Nick that the Colonia is no place for boys]
Luciana: If we leave, you know what's gonna happen? We'll watch each other die and turn until there's no one left to watch.
Nick: But they're gonna slaughter you all anyway. Somewhere you must know I'm right.
Luciana: We're gonna meet our fate. This is no place for boys. Do what you do, Nick. Run.

[Nick tells Luciana that he's only at the Colonia for her]
Luciana: [about Alejandro] He saved you. He saved me. We're here because of him.
Nick: Hey, no, no, no. I am here because of you.
Nick: Well...
Luciana: [in Spanish] I'm the boss now.
Luciana: And I say we stay.
[as Luciana kisses Nick's lips]

[Luciana tells Nick what she believes in about the dead]
Luciana: This, the world, the dead, what do you think is happening? You who are weak and have no faith, tell me, what do you believe?
Nick: I don't know.
Luciana: Every so often the ocean washes red. The coast fill with foam and trash. The sun becomes like poison and it burns the water and the land, washing it clean. This is no different. The dead, they're returning. And when they go, this world will be as new.