- Tony: All my life, it's like I'm always just about to fall off the edge of the world's tallest building. I stopped falling the second I saw you.
- Maria Vasquez: I want to make a life, a home. Maybe go to City College like Rosalía's cousin, Virginia. I want to be happy here.
- Bernardo Vasquez: Pero Nueva York no te hace feliz...
- Anita: English!
- Bernardo Vasquez: Puerto Rico, sí.
- Maria Vasquez: That is what you think. I'm gonna think for myself.
- [last lines]
- Maria Vasquez: [reaches her hand in front of Chino] Give it to me.
- [Maria takes the gun after Chino refused]
- Maria Vasquez: [examinining the gun] How do you fire it? Just... pull this?
- [Maria points the gun at Chino]
- Maria Vasquez: How many bullets are left? Enough for you?
- [Maria points at Ice]
- Maria Vasquez: [to Ice] And you?
- [She also points at Diesel and the other Jets]
- Maria Vasquez: All of you? I can kill now because I hate now.
- [Maria also points at the Sharks]
- Maria Vasquez: I hate now.
- [She points at Chino again]
- Maria Vasquez: How many can I kill, Chino? How many? And still have one bullet left for me?
- [Maria was instead surrenders and goes back to Tony's body]
- Maria Vasquez: [kisses Tony] Te adoro, Anton.
- [the Jets go to their fallen as Ice tries to help Maria but Maria shrugs him off]
- Maria Vasquez: [to Ice] No, don't touch him.
- Braulio: [comforting Maria] Maria, ya es tiempo. Vente con nosotros.
- Anita: [to Maria] Get your shoes on. Bernardo will be so mad if we make him late. And I want to dance.
- Tony: [singing] Tonight, tonight, Won't be just any night, Tonight there will be no morning star, Tonight, tonight, I'll see my love tonight, And for us stars will stop where they are!
- Maria Vasquez: Today, the minutes seem like hours, The hours go so slowly, And still the sky is light
- Tony, Maria Vasquez: Oh, moon, grow bright And make this endless day Endless night...
- Valentina: [singing] There's a place for us, Somewhere a place for us, Peace and quiet and open air, Wait for us, Somewhere, There's a time for us, Someday a time for us, Time together, With time to spare, Time to look, Time to care, Someday, Somewhere, We'll find a new way of living We'll find a way of forgiving, Somewhere, There's a place for us, A time and place for us, Hold my hand and we're halfway there, Hold my hand and I'll take you there, Somehow, Someday, Somewhere...
- Anita: ¿Pero qué es esto?
- Maria Vasquez: I love him.
- Anita: [slaps Maria and starts singing] A boy like that, who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind! A boy like that will bring you sorrow - you'll meet another boy tomorrow! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind! A boy who kills cannot love, a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love, and gets your heart! Very smart, Maria, very smart! A boy like that wants one thing only. And when he's done, he'll leave you lonely! He'll murder your love, he murdered mine! Just wait and see, just wait Maria, just wait and see!
- Maria Vasquez: [singing] Oh no Anita, no! Anita, no, It isn't true, not for me! It's true for you, not for me, I hear your words, and in my head, I know they're smart... but my heart, Anita, but my heart knows they're wrong, and my heart is too strong, for I belong.
- Anita: [overlapping] A boy like that, who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind!
- Maria Vasquez: To him alone, to him alone, one thing I know, I am his, I don't care what he is, I don't know why it's so, I don't want to know!
- Anita: A boy who kills cannot love, a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love, and gets your heart! Very smart, Maria, very smart!
- Maria Vasquez: Oh no Anita, no! You should know better! You were in love, or so you said! You should know better... I have a love, and it's all that I have, right or wrong - what else can I do? I love him, I'm his, and everything he is, I am too. I have a love, and it's all that I need, right or wrong, and he needs me too... I love him, we're one. There's nothing to be done... not a thing I can do. But hold him, hold him forever... Be with him now, tomorrow, and all of my life!
- Anita, Maria Vasquez: When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong, Your love, Is your life!
- Tony: [singing] Maria... I just met a girl named Maria! And suddenly that name will never be the same to me! Maria - I've just kissed a girl named Maria! And suddenly I found, how wonderful a sound can be! Maria! Say it loud and there's music playing! Say it soft, and it's almost like praying... Maria... I'll never stop saying Maria!
- A-Rab: Go back where you came from.
- Anita: [after being assaulted by the Jets] You think I want to stay here? In this city full of ugly little animals like you? No gracias. Yo no soy Americana. Yo soy Puertorriqueña!
- [to Valentina]
- Anita: Tell Tony, you tell that murderer, Maria ain't coming. Chino, he found out about them. Tony and Maria. He shot her. Maria is dead. You tell him that.
- Maria Vasquez: Tony. Who cares if he's a...? I don't know what he is. A Yankee?
- Bernardo Vasquez: He's a Polack. That's what he is. A big, dumb Polack.
- Anita: Polack, says the Spic. Now you sound like a real American.
- Tony: [singing] Could be... Who knows? There's something due any day, I will know right away, soon as it shows... It may come canonballing down through the sky, gleam in its eye, bright as a rose! Who knows? It's only just out of reach, down the block, on a beach, under a tree - I got a feeling there's a miracle due, gonna come through, coming to me! Could it be? Yes it could - Something's coming, Something good! If I can wait... Something's coming, I don't know what it is, but it is gonna be great! With a click, with a shock, phone'll jingle, door'll knock, open the latch... Something's coming, don't know when, but it's soon, catch the moon - one-handed catch! Around the corner... or whistling down the river! Come on, deliver to me! Will it be? Yes it will. Maybe just by holding still, it'll be there... Come on something, come on in, don't be shy, meet a guy, pull up a chair! The air is humming, and something great is coming... Who knows? It's only just out of reach, down the block, on a beach, maybe tonight... Maybe tonight... Maybe tonight...
- Lieutenant Schrank: Most of the white guys who grew up in this slum climbed their way out of it. Irish, Italian, Jews: nowadays their descendants live in nice houses and drive nice cars and date nice girls you'd want to marry. Your dads or your granddads stayed put, drinking and knocking up some local piece who gave birth to you: The last of the Can't-Make-It Caucasians.
- Anita: He will never be safe here.
- Maria Vasquez: Sí, lo sé.
- Anita: And no one will ever forgive him.
- Maria Vasquez: Will you?
- Anita: You can't ever ask me that.
- Maria Vasquez: Will you forgive me?
- Anita: Te quiero, mi niña. For he will have to go away, and you will have to go with him
- Jets: [singing] The Jets are gonna have their day, tonight... the Jets are gonna have their way tonight! The Puerto Ricans grumble 'Fair fight!' But if they start a rumble, we'll rumble them right!
- Sharks: We're gonna hand 'em a surprise, tonight... We're gonna cut 'em down to size tonight! We said 'Okay, no rumpus, no tricks!' But just in case they jump us, we're ready to mix, tonight!
- Jets: We're gonna rock it tonight, we're gonna jazz it up and have us a ball!
- Sharks: They're gonna get it tonight, the more they turn it on, the harder they fall!
- Jets: Well they began it!
- Sharks: Well they began it!
- Jets, Sharks: And we're the ones to stop 'em once and for all, tonight!
- Lieutenant Schrank: [to the police] It's happening tonight. That's all we know. The morning papers filled with stories about dead kids? Not on my watch. Every block of Lincoln Square, every inch of San Juan Hill.
- [Krupke walks up to Schrank]
- Lieutenant Schrank: [to Krupke] I want the West Side locked down.
- Maria Vasquez: Tony, if someone gets hurt because of what we do... .
- Tony: What'd we do to anyone?
- Maria Vasquez: We don't do anything wrong, liking each other, pero...
- Tony: Maria, I don't just like you.
- Maria Vasquez: We can't pretend what we do doesn't cause trouble.
- Tony: I can't talk my guys out of making trouble. Trouble is what they're made of.
- Lieutenant Schrank: What's a gang without its terrain, its turf? You're a month or two away from finding out, one step ahead of the wrecking ball. And in this uncertain world, the only thing you can count on is *me*. I'm here to keep the civil peace until the last building falls. And if you boys make trouble on my turf, Riff, hand to heart, you're headed to an upstate prison cell for a very long time. By the time you get out, this will be a shiny new neighbourhood of rich people in beautiful apartments with Puerto Rican doormen that chase trash like you away.
- [starts to leave]
- Riff: Wait! I got a question for you, Lieutenant. How tall did you used to be before you, you know, "schrank"?
- Lieutenant Schrank: Come on, Sergeant, ride with me.
- Officer Krupke: Long as I know you, Riff, you ain't had the sense, God gave a pigeon.
- Bernardo Vasquez: Last night I dreamed I was back in Puerto Rico. In my dream, we had six kids.
- Anita: Six kids? Marry a cat.
- Tony: What's "forever"? Like, "I wanna be with you forever."
- Valentina: You don't wanna start, maybe, with "I'd like to take you out to coffee"?
- Tony: No. Come on, tell me.
- Valentina: "I wanna take you to Chock Full o' Nuts for a cream cheese sandwich on a raisin bread"?
- Tony: This ain't casual like that.
- Valentina: Oh. "I want to be with you forever." "Quiero estar contigo para siempre."
- Tony: "Quiero estar con - con..."
- Valentina: Con - "Contigo" - "With You" - "Para siempre."
- Tony: "Siempre."
- Valentina: "Siempre." "Forever."
- Tony: This is the surprise.
- Maria Vasquez: It look like a church.
- Tony: It's a museum now, you know. First time I saw this place, I was on a prison bus. Up to the state prison in Ossining. There was a rumble. And I busted up this kid.
- Maria Vasquez: And then you murdered him! No, no, you murdered me!
- [pounds on Tony's chest]
- Maria Vasquez: You're a killer! The killer! Killer, killer, killer, killer, killer...
- [She breaks down into tears and collapses onto the floor]
- Tony: I'm going to the cops. I just had to see you first.
- [He turns to leave, but María grabs his jacket, holding him back]
- Maria Vasquez: If you let them take you from me, how do I forgive you for that?
- Chino: Let me join the Sharks.
- Bernardo Vasquez: Ay, muchacho, not this again.
- Chino: Por favor, let me help you protect our people.
- Bernardo Vasquez: No. You keep out of that. It's stupid. We got to do it, but it's stupid.
- Chino: Maria can't like a lambeojo who just works day and night. Never stand up like her brother.
- Bernardo Vasquez: She says all the time she doesn't want anyone like me. Just be Chino. But be a Chino who dances.
- Anita: Chino is going to be rich.
- Chino: Well, not exactly, pero.
- Bernardo Vasquez: Boxers get rich.
- Maria Vasquez: Boxers get their brains knocked out.
- Riff: I get confused when you say "our streets," seeing how these streets are ours by right of being born here, amigo.
- Lieutenant Schrank: We're outnumbered, boys. Thousands more are on their way, and once they're here, they pop out kids like crazy. Am I right?
- Balkan: Whatever they are, citizens or who gives a fart, what we know is...
- Mouthpiece: They - ain't - us.
- Riff: You know, I don't know who I am. And who cares who I am? Nobody, including me. I know that this dust that's covering everything right now, that's the four-story buildings that was standing here when you went upstate a year ago. You know, I wake up to everything I know either getting sold or wrecked, or being taken over by people that I don't like. And they don't like me. And you know what's left out of all that? The Jets. My guys. My guys, who are just like me.
- Maria Vasquez: You're tall.
- Tony: Yeah, I know. You're not.
- Maria Vasquez: You're not Puerto Rican?
- Tony: You're just figuring that out?
- Maria Vasquez: From down here, I wasn't sure.
- Tony: Is that okay? That I'm not?
- Maria Vasquez: I don't know.
- Valentina: Keep looking for better, mi milagro. Like you always done.
- Tony: [singing] Could be? Who knows? There's something due any day, I will know right away, Soon as it shows, It may come cannonballing, Down through the sky, Gleam in its eye, Bright as a rose, Who knows? It's only just out of reach, Down the block, On a beach, Under a tree, I got a feeling there's a miracle due, Gonna come true, Coming to me, Could it be? Yes, it could, Something's coming, Something good, If I can wait, Something's coming, I don't know what it is, But it is gonna be great...