Cecily: He makes me so angry; I do not know what to do or what to say to make him inspired.
Carlo: Despite this, the octopus salad I ate this afternoon was transcendent.
Two old friends, on future spirituality.
Jaël: Don’t you want to become a Buddhist?
Cecily: You mean a mistress?
Cecily, on short-lived love.
Cecily: I did not want to give him my life. I just wanted to give him my moments.
The men, on one thing for certain.
Maurice: Love is ephemeral.
Carlo: But we will always have sparkling water.
From one friend to another. Advice.
Carlo: Try to do some administration. Do not be too full of sentiment. You are like a rich man who does not know what to do with his money.
Cecily: But I am not rich!
Carlo: You are rich. You have two men in love with you.
On Cecily’s habit.
Carlo: How lips that love could pause to smoke, I do not understand.
Two friends, on matters many times counted.
Cecily: You have captured my heart.
Carlo: But you have so many hearts. Your seventh heart loves me, I think. Your third heart is reserved for someone you do not know yet.
Cecily: Only my third heart? Well, it could be very practical that way, to only take reservations for one section of a public garden.
Carlo, on the difference between Rome and Paris.
Carlo: You know it’s a civilisation if they cut the watermelon. We are living amongst barbarians.
Raj to Cecily, on her version of work.
Raj: All you are doing is walking down the street saying hello to people, in the mornings, in the afternoons and in the evenings. You are not a socialite. Socialites do not wave to waiters.
An uncle and a niece, on salsa.
Maurice: I do not like dancing when couples are indecently making love on stage.
Cecily: I do.
Maurice: You like to show off. For me, love is somewhere over a cliff with the stars and the moonshine and wolves howling all around.
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