Quotes
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Nolan Ross : [by the pool] Good morning, Lucy.
Louise Ellis : [in bikini] Why, Ethel, you look like your hangover is as wicked as mine.
[giggles]
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Louise Ellis : Now are you sure you're not from the South? 'Cause you take care of your friends like family.
Nolan Ross : My friends are my family.
[taking drinks from waiter:]
Nolan Ross : Cheers.
[offering to Louise:]
Nolan Ross : Hair of the dog.
Louise Ellis : Oh, you are a bad influence, boy.
Nolan Ross : Me? I'm sure afternoons at the convent didn't earn you the title of the black sheep of the Ellis family. I bet you were wild.
Louise Ellis : Mm, from the bowels of hell, according to Mama. Yeah, she always liked my brother better than me. Called me all sorts of sluts and unstable before sending me away. Tell you what, you never forget your first mental institution. But I did self-medicate with my share of hot, nutty boys.
Nolan Ross : Your words, my life!
Louise Ellis : My father always wrote me letters.
Nolan Ross : I remember reading about your Dad. He drank himself to death?
Louise Ellis : Mm. That's the story we tell.
[catches herself]
Louise Ellis : You know what?
[exhales]
Louise Ellis : I think I'm gonna be late for my facial. Will you call me later?
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Nolan Ross : [entering] Hey, Lucy.
Louise Ellis : Ready for round two?
Nolan Ross : Oh. What are we toasting?
Louise Ellis : You.
Nolan Ross : Oh.
[clinks glass]
Louise Ellis : To liars.
[downs drink]
Louise Ellis : Now why did LaMarchal Media call my brother asking him about my father?
Nolan Ross : I have no idea.
Louise Ellis : Where I'm from, you claim the deer you shot. Now I know you've been working with Margaux and digging up dirt on me.
[voice breaking, shakes her head:]
Louise Ellis : But for the life of me I cannot understand why. I was real with you.
Nolan Ross : Look, it's complicated.
Louise Ellis : Mm.
[sighs deeply]
Nolan Ross : LaMarchal is helping me to save my reputation.
Louise Ellis : For the price of mine? And my family's?
[tearfully:]
Louise Ellis : It has taken me years of therapy to stop having nightmares about my past. And now you are just gonna destroy that with one story?
[whispers:]
Louise Ellis : Wow. You protect your friends like family?
[sighs deeply]
Louise Ellis : Well, now I know where I stand.
[goes off, leaving Nolan feeling bad]
