Top 50 Quotes From Nick Clark

[Nick tells his mom about nobody having a clue about the virus]
Nick: It's just like no one's paying attention. It's - It's like it's not real.
Madison: It is. It's real.
Madison: [Madison see's Nick showing signs of withdrawal] You saved us. You had no choice.
Nick: I'm about to step into... a world of shit. You know that, right?
Madison: Yeah.

[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.

[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 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.

[in a flashback, Gloria asks Nick a second time about the book he's reading]
Gloria: What's it about?
Nick: Grotesques.
Gloria: Please expand.

[Alicia sits on Nick's hospital bed with him and begins feeding him the hospital food]
Nick: I know what you think.
Alicia: What's that bro? What do I think?
Nick: You're perfect and I'm not. You know, you're going to Berkeley, I got expelled from Citrus Community. I'm here, you're there.
Alicia: I don't compare myself.
Nick: You can't not.
Alicia: Well, I don't compare myself with crazy.
Nick: [Nick whispers] I'm not crazy.
Alicia: Well, you repeat the same behavior and expect different results. That's Merriam-Webster crazy.

[Madison holds up one of Nick's Oxycontin pills as he lays in the pool rejecting to take them]
Nick: Look, give it to Griselda. She needs it more than I do, you said it yourself.
Madison: I know what I said, but the point is to wean you off of it slowly. So it just doesn't, you know, happen again.
Nick: I thought you'd be happy.
Madison: I am happy, I just... Okay, well, if you need it, it's right here. Don't be a hero.
Nick: No chance of that.

[Alejandro compliments Nick on his drug cutting technique]
Alejandro: Nice technique.
Nick: I have a limited, but refined skill set.

[Nick tells Alejandro that you don't survive a bite from the dead]
Nick: You don't survive a bite.
Alejandro: Oh, you don't believe I was bitten?
Nick: Um... I don't believe in miracles.
Alejandro: Miracle is your word.
Nick: What would you call it?
Alejandro: A leap of faith.
Nick: Yeah, I have trouble with those, too.

[Nick and Alicia talk about something being off]
Nick: Something's off here.
Alicia: Everything's off. Everywhere.

[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 asks Nick about the herd of Infected he was walking with]
Alejandro: My friends say you were walking with the dead.
Nick: Safety in numbers.
Alejandro: That is strange company.
Nick: Safer than the men with guns.

[Dr. Exner introduces herself to Nick as she examines him]
Dr. Bethany Exner: I understand you may be in need of methadone?
Nick: Well, I would love methadone if I was trying to kick, which I've already done.
Dr. Bethany Exner: When's the last time you used?
Nick: Uh, I don't know. When did the world end? Couple of days before that.

[an old woman signals Nick to help with the sick]
Vieja: [in Spanish] Hey, Boy. Come here.
Nick: Me?
Vieja: [in Spanish] Yes, you... come. You're no use there swallowing flies. Come help.

[Alicia makes soup for Nick who is too sick too want it]
Alicia: [Alicia puts the container to his face] Here.
Nick: Oh, I can't do hot.
Alicia: I'll make gazpacho next time.
Nick: Yeah. It's gonna end up in the bucket.
Alicia: Okay, then drink some water.
Nick: I'm not thirsty. Water is not what I need.
Alicia: Yeah, I know what you need, Nick. Mom's working on it. It's her party and she'll cry if she wants too.

[Alejandro tells Nick that he should be dead from his leg wound]
Alejandro: That's a long walk. You should be dead.
Nick: Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Story of my life.

[Nick apologizes to Luciana for leaving without telling her]
Nick: I am sorry I snuck away, all right, and I'll never lie to you.

[Nick threatens Marco with needing Oxycontin as Luciana translates]
Nick: You have your stash, but at the rate you're going through it, man, that's gonna last, what, a few weeks?
Nick: [Luciana translates in Spanish] Maximum. And, yeah, you can find a substitute, sure, but that crave's gonna get worse and worse and worse and your sister needs her family.
Nick: [Luciana translates as Marco tightens his machete to Nick] Familia. Yeah, they need it. You let your sister go for one week without it, you're gonna pray she turns just so you can kill her.
Nick: [Luciana translates as Marco loosens the machete] You need Oxy.
Nick: [Luciana translates] We have Oxy.
Nick: [Luciana translates] But now, if you want it, we want another cart of water.
[as Luciana hesitates before translating]

[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.

[Celia Flores asks Nick about which person is the real monster]
Celia: When they look upon my son, what do they see? Go on, say it.
Nick: A monster.
Celia: Is that what we call these creatures who can't control their nature, their hunger? And what do we call those who destroy them? The ones who kill without thinking. Which is the monster?

[Victor Strand and Nick make their way out of the quarantine fence zone with the other quarantined people calling out for their help]
Nick: [Strand walks ahead of Nick with the key] Hey, you're not gonna help them?
Victor: We're not gonna help them.
Nick: Why?
Victor: Because helping them could hurt us. There's no value add.
Nick: Seriously?
Victor: Save yourself, Nick. Let others drop behind.

[in a flashback, Madison tells her son Nick in rehab that his father passed away]
Nick: No dad?
Madison: Daddy's not coming.
Nick: Couldn't get out of bed?
Madison: He - He was in an accident.
Nick: At the site?
Madison: Coming home. It was a head-on collision.
Madison: [Madison starts to cry as Nick remains silent] He didn't make it, baby. He didn't make it.
Madison: [Madison tries to hold Nick as he pulls away] They say he didn't suffer.
Nick: They say?
Nick: [as Nick screams] No!

[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?

[Alejandro compliments Nick on his survival skills]
Alejandro: Luciana tells me you did as we discussed. You were cautious at the Pelicano.
Nick: Man, I was more than cautious. I was respectful to those pricks. I kissed ass. Called them señor. Cut my balls off.
Alejandro: Better your balls than your head. You were surviving.
Nick: Surviving feels like eating shit.
Alejandro: [Alejandro smiles] You'll get used to it.

[Alicia tries leaving the house to go back and see her boyfriend Matt when Nick stops her]
Nick: [Nick sees Alicia walk to the front door] Hey! You promised mom. Alicia, come...
Alicia: [Alicia turns around and starts shouting at Nick] You make promises all the time, Nick. Lie down!
Nick: [Nick crawls to Alicia on the ground pleading for her to stay] I'm an asshole. I'm an asshole. Okay, but listen. Alicia, if you leave, you won't come back. Please.
Alicia: You let mom go.
Nick: Not safe. No, Matt! Matt is not safe.
Alicia: [Alicia rolls her eyes] Oh, Jesus.
Nick: [Nick starts shouting to Alicia from the floor] No, Alicia, you don't get what it makes people do. You don't know what I had to do, Alicia! You don't know!
Alicia: What did you have to do!
Nick: [as Alicia heads out the front door, Nick continues to shout to Alicia from inside the house] Matt will hurt you! He will kill you, Alicia! I'm...
Alicia: [Alicia hears a ruckus come from inside the house, entering into the house to see Nick spazzing out in his own vomit] No, no, no, not now! Not now! Don't do this to me, Nick. Not now! Don't you do this, you stupid son of a bitch!
Nick: [Alicia begins to cradle Nick to try and calm him down] Stay still. Shh.

[Luciana finds Nick reading a Spanish dictionary]
Luciana: You're reading a dictionary?
Nick: Yeah. Yeah. I got to learn to talk to someone that isn't you or Alejandro.
Luciana: How is that going?
Nick: [as Nick speaks in Spanish] You're wearing clean socks?

[Nick tells Travis what he remembers about seeing Gloria back at the church]
Nick: Yeah, Glo was... yeah, so she was with me when I scored. Yeah, and she was with me when I nodded. She was there. She was beside me.
Nick: [Nick whispers more frightened] But then... then when I went down... everyone was dead. 'Cause there was blood. Yeah, and it's all over her mouth. You know? Then she came at me.
Travis: What did she do?
Nick: [Nick whispers] Sh - She was eating them. She was eating them.

[first lines]
Nick: [Nick joins the little girl on the balcony platform, in Spanish] Hello.
Nick: [as Nick sees the little girl crying] Hey, what's wrong?
Little: [in Spanish] My dad.
[as Nick sees a man going with the wall of the infected]

[the police officer questions Nick on why he was ranting about blood and flesh]
Officer: You said someone got hurt. You remember that? You were raving about 'flesh and blood and viscera.'
Nick: Um, it's runner's high.
Nick: [Nick smiles] Yeah. Oh, I don't know what 'viscera' is.

[Dr. Exner senses Nick's heart rate is elevated while examining him]
Dr. Bethany Exner: Your heart rate's elevated.
Nick: You're a very attractive woman.
[Nick smiles at Dr. Exner]

[Ofelia Salazar tells Nick that she's starting to get used to cleaning blood]
Ofelia: Think I'm actually starting to get used to this.
Nick: Please don't.
Ofelia: It's what we do now. Spill blood, clean it up, spill it again.

[Nick asks Alejandro if he's afraid to die]
Nick: So, you afraid?
Alejandro: Of?
Nick: You're dying.
Alejandro: I can still fight. I can still help.
Nick: Be brave, but careful. Your words.

[Nick tells Alicia what the perk is to the apocalypse]
Nick: Hey, you want to know what the most underrated perk of the apocalypse is?
Alicia: Yes.
Nick: No planes. No pollution. No smog. Just stars.
Alicia: Yep, well, we definitely stopped the climate crisis. Awesome.

[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]

[Madison questions Nick about how to take the pills]
Madison: [Nick crushes the pills with the bottom of a glass cup] Oh, come on, Nick. Please, just swallow them.
Nick: No, it takes too long to absorb. I'm not there yet.
Madison: The idea is to wean you off of the pills, not to get...
Nick: Um, who's the expert?

[Madison catches Nick in the neighbor's house trying to look for drugs]
Nick: What do you want me to say?
Madison: You don't know.
Nick: What?
[Madison begins smacking Nick in the face]
Madison: You have no idea!
[Madison continues to smack Nick in the head]
Madison: You have no idea!
[Madison grabs and hits Nick to the floor, before quietly walking away]

[Nick tells his mother Madison that they destroy everything]
Nick: She was right about us.
Madison: What?
Nick: Celia. She knew what we are.
Madison: What are you talking about? Get in the truck, Nick.
Nick: We destroy everything.

[in a flashback, Nick wishes Gloria good luck as she prepares to leave rehab]
Nick: Good luck.
Gloria: [Gloria smiles] All will be well in the garden.

[Madison, Nick and Alicia continue to play Monopoly when Nick wins the Boardwalk and Park Place properties]
Madison: [Nick teases Madison with the money] Hey, hey.
Alicia: Calm down. Play fair.
Madison: Do not treat the banker like that.
Nick: [Nick holds up his properties] Thank you very much. And that's the pair.
Alicia: You always get all the good ones.
Madison: Oh, look at that. I'm crushing you guys. You're pathetic.
Alicia: [Madison begins shaking the dice as the three of them hear multiple gunshots in the distance, pausing quietly] Mom.
Madison: [Madison drops the dice, whispering] Seven.

[Victor Strand tells Nick that he'll need Nick for his certain talents]
Victor: I look at you, and I see someone who knows the meaning of necessity.
Nick: Well, I'm an addict.
Victor: No, you are a heroin addict. That's the gold standard. Don't sell yourself short. The soldiers are leaving. I'm gonna require a man with your talents when I make my move.
Nick: What move?
[Victor reveals the key to their fence]

[Victor Strand and Nick wait behind the fence cage]
Victor: [Nick begins banging the fence] Don't draw unnecessary attention.
Nick: I am losing my mind. I thought the house was bad.
Victor: Picture you're somewhere else with a needle in your arm. Where's your house?
Nick: Close. El Sereno.
Victor: Oldest community in Los Angeles. Predates the city. Vibrant, blue-collar, diverse. I'd gentrify the shit out of El Sereno. Another time, another world.

[Nick tells Alejandro to give his people permission to leave]
Nick: If they come here, and we're still here, it's over. You want to stay and fight, but it's their lives you're being brave with. Yours is already over.
Alejandro: I care about my people.
Nick: Your people? You wanted to be a great man. You still want it.
Alejandro: Who doesn't?
Nick: Then let them go.

[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 questions Nick about stealing from Marco]
Alejandro: I hear you almost started a war over a Gansito.
Nick: That girl's father died today. I just thought she might need something.
Alejandro: And what did you think she needed?
Nick: Something. Anything. Comfort.
Alejandro: If it's comfort you want to offer, you're going to need more cake.

[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.

[last lines]
Nick: [Nick asks Luciana about what she's testing him on] Can I ask you something? This morning Alejandro said to me that you test people. He said you were testing me.
[as Luciana walks up to Nick, the two begin kissing repeatedly]

[Travis asks Nick if what he saw at the abandoned church was a nightmare]
Travis: You think that's what you saw was a nightmare? Hallucinations?
Nick: Mmm. I really want to write it off like that, I do, but that's never happened to me before. Nothing like that. Hey, maybe I'm losing my shit.

[Nick tells Travis that he plans to get clean]
Nick: Hey, it's nothing new. Get my head shrunk, get out, get clean.
Travis: You mean that?
Nick: I always mean it.

[Madison and Nick talk about what they'll do when he runs out of pills]
Nick: Hey, Mom, I need more.
Madison: No shit. Later.
Nick: Well, how much do we have?
Madison: We have enough to get you east. Don't worry.
Nick: And then?
Madison: And then you howl at the moon.

[last lines]
Alejandro: [Alejandro asks Nick why did he come north to where they are] Why come all this way?
Nick: I want to be where the dead aren't monsters.