Arrivederci

The White Lotus 2×7

Didier: It's a wonderful thing to make a-- a new friend so late in life.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Late in life?
Didier: It's-- it's a French saying. "Tard dans la vie."
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Oh. Oh, okay.
Didier: French saying.
Quentin: So many French sayings.

Cameron Sullivan: Christ. When did the world become run by nuns? I mean, you're not even supposed to succeed anymore, right? Cause if you succeed, oh, shit, you might make someone else feel bad. You might cause harm to all the sad losers in the world.

Albie Di Grasso: I need 50,000 euros.

Albie Di Grasso: You don't need it. It's nothing to you.
Dominic Di Grasso: No, it's nothing to you 'cause you don't work for money.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: So, uh, how much longer to Taormina?
Quentin: Just a few hours. Enjoy the Ionian Sea while you still can...

Ethan Spiller: Cameron and Harper.
Daphne Sullivan: Cameron and Harper, what?
Ethan Spiller: Maybe something happened...
Daphne Sullivan: ..... I don't think you have anything to worry about. I mean, we never really know what goes on in people's minds or what they do, right? You spend every second with somebody and there's still this part that's a mystery. You know?

Daphne Sullivan: You don't have to know everything to love someone. A little mystery? It's kinda sexy. I'm a mystery to myself. Honestly, I surprise myself all the time.

Daphne Sullivan: I think you just-- you just... do whatever you have to do not to feel like a victim of life. You know? Just use your imagination.

Bert Di Grasso: Our Achilles' heel is an Achilles' cock. It's like a-- a Greek curse.

Cameron Sullivan: Cheers, guys. To friendship. To travel. To the good life.
Daphne Sullivan: Next year, the Maldives.
Cameron Sullivan: Hmm. More scuba, less pasta.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Is Greg having an affair?

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Abductions

The White Lotus 2×6

Harper Spiller: I'm just saying that it's not the cheating that bothers me so much...
Ethan Spiller: There was no cheating! There was no cheating!
Harper Spiller: ...as what it says about us.
Ethan Spiller: What? What does it say?
Harper Spiller: That maybe something has died. We are too young to be this old, Ethan. I'm sure you don't want that part of your life to be over.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Portia. When I see you, I-- I see a younger version of me. You know, when I was a little girl, my mother used to dress me up like a little doll. And I was always a little doll, waiting for someone to play with me. You know, when you're empty inside and you have no direction, you'll end up in some crazy places, right? But you'll still be lost.
Portia: What are you trying to say? Like...
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Get your shit together, Portia.

Jack: What are some of your goals?
Portia: I don't know. Be satisfied?
Jack: Yeah, that'd be nice... I think you just gotta live every day as it comes, do you know what I mean? Like, that's what I'd do anyway. Who knows if we're even gonna be here tomorrow?
Portia: Yeah. That's very true. The world's a fucked-up place. So...
Jack: What's wrong with it?
Portia: Are you joking? Pretty fucking good world, I'd say. Literally everything's falling apart.
Jack: You'd rather live in the Middle Ages then, would ya? When they were ripping each other to shreds, yeah? They were way worse than ISIS or any of them lot. Like, it's a fucking miracle anyone's even left in Europe. All we've been doing is just fuckin' hacking each other to bits and burning each other at the stake.

Jack: All I'm saying is, right, we're fucking lucky, do you know what I mean? Like, we're living in the... best time in the history of the world, on the best fucking planet. If you can't be satisfied living now, here... you're never gonna be satisfied.

Niccolò: Little pick-me-up?
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: I'm, uh... I haven't done that in a long time.
Niccolò: It's like riding a bike.

Bert Di Grasso: You always think there's gonna be a homecoming. The embrace of a woman... who tells you you've done all right. Well, there is no homecoming. Not for me, not anymore.

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That's Amore

The White Lotus 2×5

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: TANYA: You know, sometimes, I think... I should've started that spa for poor women with that girl from Maui. You know, 'cause she was like a real healer. The real deal. But you know, sometimes I think those healers are a little witchy.
Portia: Hm.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Maybe she put a curse on me...

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Look at that pool... I mean, these are some high-end gays... Oh, it's a good feeling when you realize that someone has money. 'Cause then you don't have to worry about them wanting yours.
Portia: Mm. Must be such a relief.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: It is. It is. God, will you look at this?... Oh, my God. Don't steal anything.

Quentin: You know, after hearing the story of your love life, we decided you were like a tragic heroine in a Puccini opera. I told you this.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Yeah, but-- Is that a compliment?
Quentin: Oh, yes.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: It is?

Lucia: What about tonight?
Albie Di Grasso: Yeah, um... I-- I don't mind paying. I just-- I would feel weird being part of some situation. Like, if you're being exploited by some guy. Do-- do you know-- do you know what I mean?

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Who's the lady? Is it the Queen of Sicily?

Harper Spiller: Cheers. To volcanos, and all the threesomes of past, and... present, and future.

Daphne Sullivan: I feel like you sow your oats when you're young, and then you just, you know, you get it out of your system.
Cameron Sullivan: I don't know. Not sure it works like that.
Daphne Sullivan: I know, but that's the idea.
Cameron Sullivan: Well, it's kinda like food, you know? You... gorge yourself until you're sick. You swear you'll never eat another bite, and then... few days later, you're hungry again.

Harper Spiller: I think something happened. When we were in Noto.
Daphne Sullivan: Like what?... I'm sure whatever happened wasn't a big deal. And if anything ever did happen, you just... do what you have to do to make yourself feel better about it.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Poor Madam Butterfly... Seppuku. I can relate.

Quentin: ... I'd have done anything for him. And the amazing thing is after 30 odd years, I still would.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Well, whatever happened to him?
Quentin: Well, he got old. Which, though unforgivable, is not strictly-speaking his fault.

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In the Sandbox

The White Lotus 2×4

Daphne Sullivan: I have trouble keeping girlfriends sometimes. I mean, you know how girls are... They pretend they wanna be your friend, but really they just wanna get something out of you and then talk shit and stab you in the back. But I feel like I can trust you. Can I?
Harper Spiller: For sure.
Daphne Sullivan: Plus, you don't know anybody. I mean, you don't know any of the people that I know.

Quentin: Why would he leave you?
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: It's a long story and--
Quentin: Well, we have all day. Tell me everything from the beginning.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Well... I was born in San Francisco.
Quentin: Oh, from the very beginning. Okay.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: .... So, you see? It's just been a series of... very bad decisions.
Quentin: No. You've had very bad luck.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: I know, I know.
Quentin: You're like the-- the heroine of your own Italian opera.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Does that mean I'm doomed?
Quentin: No. Of course, it doesn't. You're too fabulous to be sad. Look where you are. Drink your rosé. Best thing about luck is, it can always change.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Do you really believe that?
Quentin: No.

Mia: Why is it always men who have the power?
Giuseppe: If we didn't, pretty girls like you wouldn't get to skip to the front of the line.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: If you're looking for a friend, gay guys are really the best. Because, let's face it, women are kinda... depressing.
Portia: Oh. You think?
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Yeah. I think most women are drips. But it's not their fault. Yeah. They have a lot to be depressed about.

Bert Di Grasso: Like father, like father, like son.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: I just want to say thank you so much for today because lately I've just been really low and... I don't know, I feel like... I feel so much better now.
Quentin: Oh, good. Well, I am a huge advocate for distraction. My whole life has been one long distraction.

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Bull Elephants

The White Lotus 2×3

Portia: Is everything boring?... I just feel like there must have been a time when the world had more. You know? Like... mystery or-- or something, and now you come somewhere like this and it's beautiful and you take a picture, and then you realize that everybody's taken that exact same picture from that exact same spot. You just made some redundant content for stupid Instagram... And you can't even get lost anymore 'cause you can just find yourself on Google Maps.

Bert Di Grasso: ... The Godfather. You've seen it, right?
Portia: Some of it, I think. Yeah.
Bert Di Grasso: "Some of it?" Francis Ford Coppola made three of them. First two are classics, and they were shot right around here.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: But ever since you found out that you're gonna have a lot more years, I feel like you just realized that you were gonna be stuck living them with me.

Greg Hunt: Couples don't always get along. You knew I wasn't great at this. I've been married four times.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Four?
Greg Hunt: Tanya?...
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: I thought it was only three...
Greg Hunt: Tanya. Four, including you.

Albie Di Grasso: It's because you're nostalgic for the solid days of the patriarchy.
Dominic Di Grasso: They're undeniably great movies.
Albie Di Grasso: Men love The Godfather because they feel emasculated by modern society. It's a fantasy about a time when they could go out and solve all their problems with violence... and sleep with every woman... and then come home to their wife who doesn't ask them any questions and makes them pasta.
Bert Di Grasso: Hey, hey, hey. It's a normal male fantasy.
Albie Di Grasso: No, movies like that socialize men into having that fantasy.
Dominic Di Grasso: Movies like that exist because men already do have that fantasy. We're hard-wired.
Bert Di Grasso: Mm. Comes with the testosterone.
Albie Di Grasso: No. Gender is a construct. It's created.
Bert Di Grasso: You spent all that money on Stanford, he comes back brainwashed.

Bert Di Grasso: Do we embarrass you, Albie?
Albie Di Grasso: No, it's just... I don't think... you realize how you sound sometimes.
Bert Di Grasso: They used to respect the old. Now, we're just reminders of an offensive past everybody wants to forget.

Tarocchi: The cards say your husband is in love with someone else. This card means deceit. He is being deceitful. And this card is beauty. There's someone beautiful in his life.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Uh, couldn't that be me?
Tarocchi: Not you.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Not me?

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: This is very negative. I can't believe I paid for this. 'Cause this is just really-- You are so negative! It's not supposed to be like this. You're supposed to-- This is supposed to build me up.

Daphne Sullivan: I'd hate to be a man, honestly. It'd just be so lonely. I mean, they're so competitive. It's like, can they even be friends with each other?
     Cameron and I went on a safari and, um, on safari, you see all these pods of elephants and they're all, like, bathing in the river and playing with each other and it's so sweet. But it's just the moms and the babies. Because when the boy elephants get too big, they kick them out of the pod. And then the bull elephant has to, like, wander through the jungle by himself for the rest of his life.
     I feel sorry for men, you know. It's like... they think they're out there doing something really important. but really they're just wandering alone.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Portia. Don't spend your life chasing emotionally unavailable men. Or you'll spend your whole life just banging your head against a wall.

Cameron Sullivan: Are you an angel sent from heaven?
Lucia: No, but these are expensive, guys. You will have to pay for it.
Cameron Sullivan: I got money, baby. That's one thing I do got.

Albie Di Grasso: How was your day?
Portia: Uh, pretty grim... actually. I feel like if I murdered my boss, I could argue it was euthanasia.

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Italian Dream

The White Lotus 2×2

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Oh, God. This is such a beautiful view. I wonder if anyone's ever jumped from here...

Daphne Sullivan: No. We never fight.
Harper Spiller: That's sweet.
Daphne Sullivan: Yeah.
Harper Spiller: I don't think I've ever met a couple that doesn't fight.
Daphne Sullivan: I mean, what is there to fight about anyway, right?

Daphne Sullivan: I was just telling Harper how we never fight.
Cameron Sullivan: Well, you're practically perfect, so...
Daphne Sullivan: And when we disagree, you just give in, right?
Cameron Sullivan: Yes, ma'am. Happy wife, happy life.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: I think... my fantasy day in Italy is... Well, first, I wanna look just like Monica Vitti. And... and then this man in a very slim-fitting suit... he comes over and he lights my cigarette. And it taste really good. And then takes me for a drive on his Vespa...
Greg Hunt: You want me to rent a Vespa?
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Then at sunset... we go down very close to the sea, to one of those really romantic spots. And then we... we drink lots of aperitivos, and we eat big plates of pasta with giant clams. And we're just really chic and happy and... and we're... beautiful.

Bert Di Grasso: Listen. You can't come to Sicily and just sit in your room. It's against the law.

Lucia: So, can we get the keys to our rooms?
Valentina: Yes, nut calm down, this is a five star hotel. Have a bit of...
Lucia: So, you're a business woman, right? This is why they created hotels... to make money off the backs of girls like us. Don't be naive.

Daphne Sullivan: You have to go [to Venice] and you have to stay at the Aman. Trust me. I cried when I saw the view from our room.
Harper Spiller: Hmm.
Daphne Sullivan: And a princess lives there. It's somebody's house!
Cameron Sullivan: It's wild, though. These European aristocrats, they have no money. Like, I shit you not. They have all these palazzos, and they got no cash.
Daphne Sullivan: Uh-huh. And they're so rude.
Cameron Sullivan: Oh, my God, are they rude... We could buy their palazzo, and they'd treat us like we're, you know--
Daphne Sullivan: Like bugs.
Cameron Sullivan: Yeah.
Daphne Sullivan: Like disgusting bugs.

Valentina: You look so pink.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Guess who I am?
Valentina: Uh...
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Watch, watch.
Valentina: Peppa Pig.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: I'm Monica Vitti.
Valentina: Monica Vitti's dead, but yes.

Ethan Spiller: Harper's thinking of starting a little foundation, actually.
Daphne Sullivan: Nice.
Harper Spiller: Yeah, I'm working with the Hispanic Federation.
Daphne Sullivan: Great.
Cameron Sullivan: Yeah, we're involved in a lot of charities. Right, Daph?
Daphne Sullivan: Mm-hmm. You know, sometimes if I've had too much to drink, I wake up the next day and I realize I've spent a lot of money.
Cameron Sullivan: Yeah.
Daphne Sullivan: Like, a lot of money.
Cameron Sullivan: Like, all the money.
Daphne Sullivan: If I have had wine and I'm scrolling and I see anything with like neglected children or babies or abused animals, it's like, I can't. I mean, people are just so fucked up.
Cameron Sullivan: Yeah, we're not just materialistic pigs... Despite what you might think.
Harper Spiller: I don't-- I don't think that. No, I... I don't think that.

Bert Di Grasso: We're in Sicily. Isn't this incredible? It-- it's so old.
Portia: It is pretty crazy to wrap your head around.
Bert Di Grasso: You know, Hades raped Persephone right here in Sicily. She was picking flowers and he burst through the earth and he raped her.
Albie Di Grasso: Okay, Nonno.
Bert Di Grasso: Well, that's what happened. He raped her. Then, he dragged her down to the underworld.
Portia: Hmm. I didn't know that.
Bert Di Grasso: Demeter forgave Hades, and he raped her daughter! I mean, whatever you've done can't be as bad as that... As Hades. And the raping.

Daphne Sullivan: How about you guys? Do you wanna have kids?
Harper Spiller: Uh...
Ethan Spiller: Yeah.
Harper Spiller: Yeah. Yeah. We weren't sure for a while.
Ethan Spiller: Yeah. We've debated it a lot.
Harper Spiller: Yeah, you know, just bringing a kid into the world right now, everything going on... Never mind.

Bert Di Grasso: Your mistake was being sloppy.
Dominic Di Grasso: What are we talking about?
Bert Di Grasso: That's what's unforgivable. A man does what he has to do. But you keep it tight. If you're sloppy, it's like you're rubbing her face in it. Bad form.
Dominic Di Grasso: Thanks for the tip. You know, I don't think you were as discreet as you think you were regarding your own affairs.
Bert Di Grasso: Affairs. They weren't affairs, they were nothing. They were peccadilloes.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Got my pasta vongole with giant clams. And then a Vespa ride with you. You're wearing the shirt that I gave you. You made my Italian dream come true. Thank you very much. I feel like Monica Vitti. I really do.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Guess what? I'm telling you in your eye, you're a piece of shit. I hate you.

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Ciao

The White Lotus 2×1

Daphne Sullivan: Oh, I'm so jealous. We leave in a few hours. ... We had the best time. ... The hotel's perfect, and the staff is excellent. The food is amazing. And the wine. I mean... We are so excited. Italy's just so romantic. Oh, you're gonna die. They're gonna have to drag you out of here.

Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Whenever I stay at a White Lotus, I always have a memorable time. Always.
Valentina: And you are in our Blossom Circle. So, you are very important to us.
Tanya MacQuoid-Hunt: Mm. But I was a Petal, and I've worked my way up to Blossom. Yeah.

Portia: She's a f-- She's a mess. She's a miserable mess. If I had a half a billion dollars, I would not be miserable. I would be enjoying my life! It's... so unfair, and I'm so tired.

Harper Spiller: Oh. Really? You guys don't take sleeping pills?
Daphne Sullivan: No.
Harper Spiller: Ever?
Cameron Sullivan: Nope.
Daphne Sullivan: You have trouble sleeping?
Harper Spiller: Mm.
Cameron Sullivan: Why? Why can't you sleep?
Daphne Sullivan: Just, like work stuff?
Harper Spiller: Yeah, but also just... I don't know, just everything that's going on... in the world.
Daphne Sullivan: What do you mean? What's going on?
Harper Spiller: Oh, I don't know. Just, like, the end of the world.

Daphne Sullivan: Oh, come on! The world's not ending, it's not that bad. Honestly, Cam and I don't even watch the news anymore.
Ethan Spiller: You don't follow the news?
Daphne Sullivan: No!
Cameron Sullivan: Like, I'm just so over the whole news cycle, you know? It's-- it's like, gimme a break.
Daphne Sullivan: They're just trying to freak everybody out.
Cameron Sullivan: Yeah. They're just polarizing society by making us glued to their apocalyptic soap opera, you know? It's like...
Daphne Sullivan: Yeah. And even if it was as bad as they say it is, I mean what can you really do, you know?
Cameron Sullivan: Right.
Daphne Sullivan: We vote, we donate money. You can't obsess.
Cameron Sullivan: Did you vote, babe? Be honest.
Daphne Sullivan: I did.

Dominic Di Grasso: What are you doing? I mean, what's... the point?
Bert Di Grasso: Flirting is one of the pleasures of life.
Dominic Di Grasso: Do you actually think you have a chance with any of these women?
Bert Di Grasso: Oh, don't be rude.
Dominic Di Grasso: I'm just saying, you're 80 years old.
Bert Di Grasso: Well, I'm still a man. And I get older and older, but the women I desire remain young. Natural, right?

Albie Di Grasso: No girl should have to be exposed to an old guy's junk.
Bert Di Grasso: It's not like it was ever so beautiful to look at anyway. I mean, it's a penis. It's not a sunset.

Ethan Spiller: Thanks for making more of an effort. I mean, yeah, they kind of live in a bubble, but... they're fun, right?
Harper Spiller: They don't vote, Ethan.
Ethan Spiller: I know. What the fuck?
Harper Spiller: They don't read the news. They don't read! It's like, what do they even talk about? Is that what happens when you're rich for too long, your brain just atrophies?
Ethan Spiller: I mean, they seem happy.
Harper Spiller: No way. It's a front.
Ethan Spiller: It's good to have, you know, diverse friends, I guess.
Harper Spiller: Yeah, I think we're their diverse friends. Their White-passing diverse friends.

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Departures

The White Lotus 1×6

Tanya MacQuoid: Sorry, that chaise is taken... But you're a very pretty man.

Dillon: Is this like a kamikaze situation? Are you gonna take me down with you?
Armond: What do you care? You make shit money. They exploit me. I exploit you. Crash and burn, Dillon. Better at your age, before you've wasted your entire life.

Olivia Mossbacher: I'm not my parents, Paula.
Paula: But you are. Actually, you are. And you think you're like this rebel, but in the end... this is your tribe. Your family, the people here.
Olivia Mossbacher: That's really manipulative, Paula. You're the one who stole, yet I'm the bad guy?
Paula: Don't give me that. You've stolen, too.
Olivia Mossbacher: What did I steal?
Paula: Well, I guess it's not stealing when you think everything's already yours. Just stop pretending to be my friend. I'm just some prop you use for some weird cred.

Armond: .... That was the best seating ever.

Greg: Don't be surprised if I suddenly just drop dead. Death doesn't have to spoil everything, right?... Enjoy your life till they drop the curtain.
Tanya MacQuoid: Well... I've had every kind of treatment over the years. Death... is the last immersive experience I haven't tried.

Belinda: You want my advice? I'm all out.

Rachel Patton: Everything's fine. I'm happy, promise. I'll-- I'll be happy.

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The Lotus-Eaters

The White Lotus 1×5

Kitty Patton: I don't think it's the most romantic hotel in Hawaii, do you? It's perfectly fine, but are you finding it very romantic?

Nicole Mossbacher: Paula, are you feeling better? Your migraine?
Paula: Yeah. Much better. Thanks.
Nicole Mossbacher: Is that why you couldn't stay for dinner last night?
Olivia Mossbacher: Paula was disturbed by the entertainment.
Nicole Mossbacher: The hula dancing?
Mark Mossbacher: Oh, y-- you're allergic to fire?
Olivia Mossbacher: It bothers her to watch Hawaiians have to dance for a bunch of white people.
Nicole Mossbacher: Oh. I think it's just a way for them to honor their culture. And they seemed to be having a really good time.
Mark Mossbacher: Look, obviously, imperialism was bad. Shouldn't kill people, steal their land, and then make them dance. Everybody knows that... But it's humanity. Welcome to history. Welcome to America.

Mark Mossbacher: I mean, what are we gonna do, huh? Really. Nobody cedes their privilege. That's absurd. And it goes against human nature. We're all just trying to win the game of life. How are we-- how are we gonna make it right? Hmm? Should we give away all our money? Would you like that, Liv? Hmm?... Yeah, that's what I thought. Mm-hmm. M-- maybe we should just feel shitty about ourselves all the time for crimes of the past? Wear a hair shirt and not go on vacation?

Belinda: I think you might be getting ahead of yourself a little, you know? Maybe he likes you.
Tanya MacQuoid: Yeah. He likes the first layer... But what about the second layer and the third layer? And then every step along the way, you know, I have to worry about, you know, is he gonna like the next layer, you know? And then I get all afraid, like, you know, how much do I wanna show him? You know, is he gonna be repulsed? Or is he gonna be alarmed? And at the core of the onion, Belinda... is just a straight-up alcoholic lunatic.
Belinda: That-- that's not true.
Tanya MacQuoid: No, it is. It is. And I just wanna show my hand. I don't wanna play poker anymore. I just wanna skip all the layers, and just go straight to the crazy, and just like, you know, let the chips fall where they may. And, you know, just show him, just show him the core of the onion.

Kitty Patton: I just think you should feel great.
Rachel Patton: Yeah, but what is the reason? Like, why am I here?
Kitty Patton: What do you mean? Well, you're very magnetic, and you're so beautiful.
Rachel Patton: You're making me sound like a trophy wife.
Kitty Patton: Well, what's so wrong with that? A trophy shines. It's a source of pride. A trophy's made of gold. You know, it's not the worst.

Kai: I don't steal from people, you know?
Paula: They stole from you. They stole all of this from you. You know that.
Kai: But it's different. It's-- It's different people.
Paula: No, they're the same people. They're all the same people. Don't you see they're all the same people? All of these people, at some point, have stolen from someone like you. And they don't need it. They won't even miss it. They have all this money, and they don't even know what to do with it. And then there's someone like you who's struggling.
Kai: I know, but--
Paula: That's not right.

Olivia Mossbacher: I love how you drive us on these family outings, but you spend the entire time on your phone.
Nicole Mossbacher: It's a work e-mail, honey... Oh, I know it's just so pathetic having a job that pays for the vacation.

Kitty Patton: Just be happy.

Tanya MacQuoid: You need to go.
Greg: What? Why?
Tanya MacQuoid: Well, you know, eventually, you're just gonna leave. So I think we should just cut to the chase.

Armond: Sometimes, just watching them eat every night makes me wanna gouge my eyes out. The Lotus-eaters.
     "Hateful is the dark-blue sky,
     vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea.
     Death is the end of life.
     Ah, why should life all labor be?"
Belinda: Yeah...

Rachel Patton: I think I've made a terrible mistake...

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Recentering

The White Lotus 1×4

Paula: And now you work for the same assholes that stole from you?
Kai: When my brothers found out that I took this job... they were so pissed. But I gotta make a living, you know?

Paula: She's tricky.
Kai: Isn't she your friend?
Paula: Yeah, she's my friend. As long as she has more of everything than I do. But if I have something of my own, she wants it.

Tanya MacQuoid: When I saw my mother's ashes hit the water, you know, I just, uh... It just reminded me of... of, you know, sprinkling fish food in an aquarium. And I was just like, "Oh, my God," you know? Am I feeding my mother to the fishes? You know? And is that what she would've wanted?...

Nicole Mossbacher: I don't think you appreciate how tough things are for kids like Quinn right now.
Olivia Mossbacher: Why? Because of the Asperger's?
Nicole Mossbacher: He doesn't have Asperger's, Olivia. But he is a straight, white, young man. And nobody has any sympathy for them right now. And I just feel like we should. Yeah, in a way, they're the underdogs now.
Paula: Go on.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, for instance, young guys like Quinn, who are just getting out of college, I don't care how incredibly impressive they are, it is almost impossible for us to hire them.
Paula: Well, isn't that because up until now, they're the only people that you've ever hired?
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah, don't you have enough of them on staff?
Nicole Mossbacher: Trust me, I get it. I'm just saying, I understand how guys like Quinn can feel a little alienated from the culture right now.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, cringe.
Nicole Mossbacher: And I don't think it's fair to him.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, cringe.
Nicole Mossbacher: Olivia, he's my son, okay?
Paula: I think he's gonna be okay, Nicole.
Nicole Mossbacher: Thank you, Paula.
Paula: .....
Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. Paula's meds are missing. And so we need to go find them. It's urgent.
Nicole Mossbacher: She's not gonna have like a seizure or something?
Paula: If I keep sitting here.

Mark Mossbacher: Buddy, Quinn, yesterday... I think I said some things that I probably shouldn't have.
Quinn Mossbacher: Like what?
Mark Mossbacher: Well... I don't really remember exactly what I said, so...
Quinn Mossbacher: You said having sex with mom was like eating a plate of live worms.

Mark Mossbacher: Quinn, look, okay, that's not because of your mother. Your mother is beautiful. Like, I'm lucky. I mean, the truth is... Do you wanna know the truth?

Mark Mossbacher: Man... in the moment... you're like this... You're a monkey. Like possessed. You'd do anything to get your rocks off. And then, later, you regret it. And you do regret it.

Mark Mossbacher: There's the man, and there's the monkey. And somehow, you gotta be man enough to face down the monkey.

Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, good news. I'm looking around the hotel, and it seems like all of the white, straight men are doing just fine. They're still thriving.
Nicole Mossbacher: Point taken. I just think it's funny that now it's okay to reduce everybody to their race and gender, but isn't that the kind of thinking that we've been fighting against all these years?...
Mark Mossbacher: I agree. I mean, for years, I was the good guy, you know? I was the one in the room, saying, like, "Hey, that's not cool," to all the chauvinists and bigots. But now I'm the bad guy, or at least, I shouldn't say anything on account of my inherited traits. I mean, why do I need to prove my anti-racist bona fides? It seems wrong.
Paula: It's someone else's turn to eat.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah. It's not all about you, Dad. It's time to recenter the narrative.
Mark Mossbacher: That's fine by me. I don't wanna be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let's center the narrative around, uh, Paula.

Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. What do you know about her?
Mark Mossbacher: What do you mean?
Olivia Mossbacher: Do you know anything about Paula?
Mark Mossbacher: I know that she goes to college with you. And that she's a very intelligent and appealing young woman.
Olivia Mossbacher: But you've never really asked her one thing about herself.
Mark Mossbacher: Well, we're not on a job interview. We're on vacation. So... I mean, besides, what do-- What does Paula know about me?
Paula: Your balls are swollen.

Mark Mossbacher: It goes both ways. I mean, when has Paula ever asked me a question?
Paula: I could ask you a question.
Mark Mossbacher: Okay. Cool. Shoot.
Paula: What do I stand for?
Mark Mossbacher: What do you stand for?

Rachel Patton: I really wanna get a job.
Kitty Patton: No. Why would you do that? Honey, no. Why would you wanna do that? That doesn't make any sense.
Shane Patton: Uh-uh.
Kitty Patton: You don't need to do that. Why--
Rachel Patton: What do you mean? Why not?
Kitty Patton: Well, it's just limiting. You can do so much more by being on boards and hosting events... things like that. And the good part is, you don't have to answer to anybody.

Tanya MacQuoid: What was the thing that made you wanna dedicate your whole life to activism? Was it one incident that was especially brutal?
Greg Hunt: I-- I don't understand. What do you mean, "activism"?
Tanya MacQuoid: Yeah. Black Lives Matter.
Greg Hunt: Black Lives Matter? I'm not... I'm not involved in that.
Tanya MacQuoid: You're not?
Greg Hunt: No.
Tanya MacQuoid: Because you-- Yeah, you said BLM.
Greg Hunt: Yeah. That's the Bureau of Land Management. I have like 300 rangers across ten states that report to me.

Mark Mossbacher: See, this is the same old tribal thinking, replacing the old hierarchy with a new one. It's like...
Nicole Mossbacher: My feeling is most of these activists, they don't really wanna dismantle the systems of economic exploitation, not the ones that benefit them, which are all global, by the way. They just want a better seat at the table of tyranny.
Olivia Mossbacher: Hmm, no, that's just you, Mom.
Nicole Mossbacher: And what's your system of belief, Olivia? Not capitalism. Not socialism. So just cynicism?

Quinn Mossbacher: What does it matter what we think? If we think the right things or the wrong things? We all do the same shit. We're all still parasites on the Earth. There's no virtuous person when we're all eating the last fish and throwing all our plastic crap in the ocean. Like a billion animals died in Australia during the fires. A billion. Where does all the pain go?

Armond: Listen. I'm obsessed with you. I wanna get you naked.

Rachel Patton: Shane, wait-- what-- we're in the middle of a fight!
Shane Patton: We have the rest of our lives to fight.

Olivia Mossbacher: Why'd you leave?
Paula: Watching all the Hawaiians have to dance for all these white people that stole their islands... it's depressing.
Olivia Mossbacher: I'm sorry my family's so defective. I'm not like them. I'm your friend.

Shane Patton: Dude's going down. You are fucked now, bro.

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Mysterious Monkeys

The White Lotus 1×3

Mark Mossbacher: Can we not, please? Uh...
Olivia Mossbacher: Even if he wasn't a top, it doesn't mean he was femme. He could've still been butch, Dad.
Paula: Maybe he was a bossy bottom.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah, maybe Grandpa was a power bottom. Does that make you feel better?
Mark Mossbacher: No. That makes me wanna throw up.
Olivia Mossbacher: Dad, you don't wanna say that.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, he can say whatever he wants. You know, if he's having a negative visceral reaction to his father having gay sex, it's valid. It's fine.
Olivia Mossbacher: Well, it comes off as homophobic.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, it's not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Well, that's how it comes across.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, luckily, he's in a safe space and he's here with our family so he can come off however he wants.
Olivia Mossbacher: Up to a point.
Nicole Mossbacher: Or what? You'll cancel him? Dox him? Sic the K-Pop fans on him?
Olivia Mossbacher: See what I have to deal with?

Nicole Mossbacher: Well, you're not sleeping out there again.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, he likes it. He's communing with nature.
Nicole Mossbacher: It's funny how you're able to have so much compassion for all these groups of oppressed peoples you don't even know, and yet not for your family.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yep, okay.
Nicole Mossbacher: Who actually know you and love you. Your generation's only sacred value. Biting the hand that feeds you.

Mark Mossbacher: What is real? Like, what... You know? What's real? Are you gay?
Quinn Mossbacher: No.
Mark Mossbacher: Hey. 'Cause if you are, it's okay. Just, like, be real.
Quinn Mossbacher: I am being real.
Mark Mossbacher: What's real is... like, gay, straight, whatever, we're just monkeys, we're just fucking monkeys.
Quinn Mossbacher: Yeah?
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah. Yeah, we're just animals. I mean, you know, we wanna be, like... superheroes and respectable fathers and pillars in our communities, whatever, but-- but in fact, we're just monkeys... living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other.

Mark Mossbacher: I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn.
Quinn Mossbacher: You think that's what did it?
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah, definitely. Hey, I thought-- My whole life, I thought I was the flawed child of an icon. Like, I put him on this, like, enormous pedestal. Meanwhile, like, he's off in some bathhouse on the DL, getting manhandled by some... like, random dudes... Wow. Oh, I wish I had known.

Mark Mossbacher: But after a few years, it doesn't matter how much role playing you do or, like, toys you buy or porn you watch together, whatever, sex just turns into, like, a-- You know like when they do one of those food challenges on a reality show, you know, where they gotta, like, eat like a bowl of live worms, and you just got-- you gotta psych yourself up for it. You're like, "I can do this. Just hold my nose and, like, suck it down as fast as I can so I don't gag."
Rachel Patton: Yeah...
Mark Mossbacher: But it's natural. I mean, it'd be weird if it didn't fade, you know.

Olivia Mossbacher: You're addicted to porn.
Quinn Mossbacher: No, I'm not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yes, you are.
Nicole Mossbacher: Don't sex shame him. Boys are sex shamed all the time now. I mean, I know it's very in, but it's not okay... What?
Olivia Mossbacher: You sex shame Dad.
Nicole Mossbacher: I do not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. Whatever gets you through the night.

Nicole Mossbacher: When you're young, sex is powerful and intoxicating. And as we mature, it gets demystified. You realize there are more important things to focus on.
Olivia Mossbacher: Like what? Zooming with China?
Nicole Mossbacher: Like holding onto whatever shreds of dignity you still have.

Shane Patton: Why would he be gaslighting you? This has happened before. Like, people have been coming for me my whole life. I'm just playing the hand I was dealt. Like, yeah. It's a great hand. And that's not my fault.

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New Day

The White Lotus 1×2

Nicole Mossbacher: I just think it's funny that I'm a role model to strangers. But...
Olivia Mossbacher: But what?
Nicole Mossbacher: Most people admire people who achieve things, but you somehow look at it as if it's a personality disorder.
Olivia Mossbacher: Making shit happen all the time is a compulsion. It staves off feelings of emptiness. Or whatever. The real question is, what exactly are you getting done? Putin is an overachiever. He's impressive, also evil.
Mark Mossbacher: Liv, your mother is not Putin.
Nicole Mossbacher: Thank you.
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah. She runs one of the most profitable search engines in America. And she's made it as a woman in a male-dominated culture. It's very cool.
Olivia Mossbacher: And her company is a part of the unraveling of the social fabric. Should I be rooting for that just because it's run by a woman?
Nicole Mossbacher: No, you should be rooting for that because it's your mother.

Shane Patton: How about this? Whatever they're paying you, I'll double it. You can get paid to have fun on your honeymoon, with me.

Belinda: I do think that there's a purpose in helping even rich people, you know? Helping them to find healing, making them feel more present, more aware... Because rich people, they're the ones that, you know... are fucking up the whole world.
Tanya MacQuoid: Yeah. I mean, I know a lot of rich, white, fucked up people. They could really use you.

Mark Mossbacher: Uh... This may be a little cheesy. But, um, I just wanted to say... that I had a little health scare... and it turned out to be a real blessing, because it's the kind of thing that gives you a new perspective on life and... and how lucky we all are. And when you really think about it, I mean... we have no problems. We've got food to eat, family, we're healthy and alive. And when you think about how...
Rachel Patton: That-- that family... is so obnoxious. The mother is a bitch. And the daughter is a bitch also.
Mark Mossbacher: Never take anything for granted. It's also a reminder to look at things in a new way, and if you do, then, like, every day can be a new day, right? And if it is... it's like you're al-- you're always being born into life... like, all the time. You're not stuck... decaying or dying. Anyway, that's just what I was thinking about. I just wanna share it and... just... I love you guys.
Nicole Mossbacher: That's so sweet, honey.

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Arrivals

The White Lotus 1×1

Shane Patton: No offense... leave me the fuck alone.

Armond: See, in situations like that, just always stay positive. Remind these people of-- of all the fabulous things they already possess. Unique room, ocean view... You have to treat these people like sensitive children. They always say it's about the money, but it's not. It's not even about the room. They just need to feel seen.
Lani: Seen.
Armond: They wanna be the only child. The special, chosen baby child of the hotel. And we are their mean mummies, denying them their Pineapple room.

Mark Mossbacher: You know, I think... it's like every kid... like, growing up, wants to be the hero of the story. And in the end... you know, you're just happy you're not the villain. You know what I'm saying?

Belinda: Every moment... I'm being born into this life. I will drop the story... and feel the newness of each moment. I am my own phallic mother. I'm my own vaginal father. I fill my own cup. My failing body is immaterial. The child in me is alive and fresh as the day I was born. I will connect with that child at all times and feed and nurture her.

Armond: You-- you can't have a baby the first day on the job.

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