Patrick Melrose (TV Mini Series)

Some Hope (2018)

Benedict Cumberbatch: Patrick Melrose

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Quotes 

• Patrick Melrose : It's a miracle you're alive.

  Chilly Willy : You too. But then, everything's a miracle, man. It's a miracle we don't melt in the bath like a piece of soap.

• Patrick Melrose : In my experience of love, you get excited when someone tries to mend your broken heart and disappointed when you realise they can't.

• Johnny Hall : Thanks for telling me.

  Patrick Melrose : No need to get Californian about it.

  Johnny Hall : No need to be so English! It's the end of the party.

  Patrick Melrose : It's more than that. It's the end of an era.

  Johnny Hall : Well let's hope so.

• Patrick Melrose : [to Johnny]  I've told you that there's something that I've never said out loud and now I'm going to.

• Patrick Melrose : In that moment, when it was happening, and this will sound strange, but, there was a lizard on the wall - gecko, bright green. I thought if I could somehow put myself inside... that I might be able to get through this. Not much of an escape plan I know. The point is, now I'm exhausted hating him, and it's not enough. And if I'm going to break out into the world, not just this one but the real world, and make a contribution, live rather than just survive then I am going to have to say these things out loud.

• Patrick Melrose : You know, I have my reservations about your character.

  Julia : Me too.

• Nicholas Pratt : [Opening the curtains]  Better than a psychiatric ward, I suppose. Theoretically. I need a drink. Do you have drink, a proper drink?

  Patrick Melrose : No, that's one of the reasons I was on the psychiatric ward. I can offer you herbal teas.

  Nicholas Pratt : Don't be absurd.