Cecily: Rituals are life-building for personality parasitic nomads.
Cecily, on lives and life.
Cecily: I am certainly glad I can partake in so many lives, but one day, I look forward to finding my own. It should have a Christmas tree in it once a year, and someone who cares enough to buy me a newspaper every morning.
Cecily, on reality.
Cecily: There should be a single gesture to express the necessity of a facelift so that one does not have to invent awkward euphemisms to awaken one’s friends to certain realities.
Cecily, on her own success.
Cecily: I wish to get to a point in my life wherein I may watch polo with an aloofness that only comes from watching too much polo.
A text message to Cecily.
Carlo: It is currently raining my love. Do not be influenced by rain.
The opinion of two men.
Carlo: She’s like a flower that blooms in the night.
Raj: That’s a vampire.
Three friends, on gardens.
Carlo (to Cecily): You have a garden with three men in it.
Raj: Have you read ‘The Torture Garden’?
Carlo, to Cecily.
Carlo: I had a dream. You and Rubens were singing together.
To the fresh-faced waiter.
Rahoul: Young boy, where is the wine list?
Arnaud, analysing a cube, himself.
Arnaud: This cube is a mystery. A kind of Schrödinger’s box. Normal people can’t see what’s inside. I can. I’m God.