Daily Dialogue — June 5, 2010

Abigail Freemantle: This is God’s will, given me as I wandered in my own wilderness. Draw close around me. You four men are to go west, to take no food or water, but to go this very day in the clothes you now wear. You are to go on foot. I’m in the way of knowing one will fall by the way, but I don’t know which it will be. I’m in the way of knowing the others will be taken before this Flagg, who is not a man, but a creature from beyond the world. I don’t know if you will defeat him. I only know God wants you to go, and with God’s help you will stand and be true.
Frannie Goldsmith: [In tears]And what if we say no? [Stuart tries to hush her] What?
Abigail Freemantle: Your will is as free as that of Eve in the Garden, child. ‘Go where ye list’ has always been God’s way. But this is what God wants of you. Be true. Stand.
[Abigail sighs deeply and dies]
Glen Bateman: It is finished. White magic; that’s all that’s left.”

 — Abigail (Ruby Dee), Frannie (Molly Ringwald), Glen (Ray Walston), The Stand (1994), based on a novel by Stephen King

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is dialogue from movies or TV shows based on the writing of Stephen King, suggested by JD Walters, who also suggested The Stand. 

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