Two friends, on budgets.

Cecily: Raj says my version of being on a budget is purchasing a €20,000 dress for €2,000.

Ohan: That is a great deal. Especially if you can sell it for €10,000. 

Cecily: The problem is, I get attached to things. Especially things I have acquired through good deals. I feel it in my soul. In my blood. The deal-making. I am my mother’s daughter. 

Ohan: Which part of your blood makes you not sell?

Cecily: The Cecily part.

Two friends, on expectations.

Alexander: What do you want to happen with Ohan?

Cecily: I would like to see him once every six months, for a week of pure bliss, and never ruin the incredible beauty of what we have by turning it into some conventional full-time relationship. What do you want with Sam? Full-time lying on a beach and reading Proust to each other, while he occasionally barbecues kale and tempeh?

Alexander: I’ll be honest and say I want to know he’s not sleeping with anyone else, and to hear him say “I love you”, and a cute two-bedroom in Park Slope, with matching miniature schnauzers. Plus kale and tempeh in abundance.

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.