- 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.
- Nicole Mossbacher: Mark, your truth changes from minute to minute. You're up, you're down. One minute, you're dying. The next minute... it's a wonderful life.
- Mark Mossbacher: Okay. Well, maybe I should be more like you then. But even if I could be some self-protective corporate robot out in the world, I still couldn't pull it off at home.
- Nicole Mossbacher: Do you ever edit yourself at all? Even when you're apologizing, you're so insulting.
- 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, you're, 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. 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. Maybe we should just feel shitty about ourselves all the time for the crimes of the past? Wear a hair shirt and not go on vacation?
- Mark Mossbacher: I was just realizing that the reason I, I told Quinn is because if I can't give him a lot of reasons for him to respect me as a man, then maybe if I'm just honest about my failures... maybe he'll respect me for that.
- [a burnt out Armond is off the clock, sitting in the dining area with a dispirited Belinda]
- Armond: [observes guests around them] 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 Lindsey: Yeah.
- [gives him a commiserating look and pours herself another glass of wine]
- Nicole Mossbacher: Okay, I'm gonna go.
- Mark Mossbacher: What?
- Nicole Mossbacher: I'm not in the mood anymore.
- Mark Mossbacher: Nic, come on.
- Nicole Mossbacher: I'm fucking over this. Thank you. Why am I the fucking punching bag? All I do is everything I possibly can. And just because I fucking hold everything fucking together, everybody gets to fucking poke?
- Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, what's with the Tourette's?
- Nicole Mossbacher: Whatever, Olivia. I don't need this from my own fucking family. I'm tired of being the fucking punching bag.
- Kitty Patton: Shane's always been a catch. He's had so many girls just throw themselves at him over the years, but he chose you. And he seems happy. You make him very happy.
- Rachel Patton: He makes me happy.
- Kitty Patton: That's good.
- Rachel Patton: It is.
- Kitty Patton: He says, though, you haven't been very happy on the trip.
- Rachel Patton: He said that?
- Kitty Patton: He did. He just said you're having a little bit of an identity crisis. It's not a big deal. And of course, it makes sense. You know, when I married Don, I had my own money, my family money, and that gave me a, you know, a little more power in the relationship. No marriage is perfectly symmetrical, you know? One person might have more money, or is better looking, the other could have the bigger career, or maybe one has more friends or cachet. Do you know what I'm saying?
- Rachel Patton: Not really.
- Kitty Patton: I'm just saying you shouldn't feel insecure. A lot of great girls came and went, but you won. And there's a reason you're here and all those other girls are out of the picture, you know? So I just think you should feel great.
- Rachel Patton: Yeah, but what is the reason? Like, why am I here? What do you mean?
- Kitty Patton: 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.
- Rachel Patton: Yeah, but that's not what I wanna be.
- Kitty Patton: The most important thing is, Rachel, you make him happy. That's your secret power. So just keep making him happy. I know you will.
- Tanya McQuoid: He seemed like a nice guy.
- Belinda Lindsey: So what's the problem?
- Tanya McQuoid: I just know I'm gonna get hurt.
- Belinda Lindsey: I, I think you might be getting ahead of yourself a little, you know? Maybe he likes you.
- Tanya McQuoid: Yeah. He likes the first layer. Maybe. I don't know. You know, he... 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 Lindsey: That, that's not true.
- Tanya McQuoid: 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: There was always something a little off with the Cutlers.
- Shane Patton: Yeah.
- Kitty Patton: They were always trying a little too hard, you know?
- Shane Patton: It's a family we knew from the Bay Club. The kid's our age. His life's a total disaster.
- Kitty Patton: You know, I knew they had money, but I could never figure out what the father did, Gavin.
- Shane Patton: Hmm.
- Kitty Patton: Then one day, I'm at the bookstore and I see a book written by Gavin Cutler.
- Shane Patton: What?
- Kitty Patton: Turns out he's a writer of crime fiction. Isn't that insane?
- Shane Patton: You gotta be kidding me.
- Kitty Patton: Everybody's got to make their money somehow.
- Tanya McQuoid: Greg, come on. You need to go.
- Greg Hunt: What? Why?
- Tanya McQuoid: Well, you know, eventually, you're just gonna leave. So I think we should just cut to the chase. Okay? Let's just go.
- Paula: Just one of those bracelets, just one, is worth 75,000 dollars. Kai, think what you can do with that. You know, you could finally hire a good lawyer to fight these fuckers.
- Kai: Oh, shit. Paula, I...
- Paula: You can help your brothers. They won't give you shit for taking this job, that's for sure, not after the way you come through for them like this.
- Kai: I just, I don't, I don't, 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.
- Kai: I agree. But I just... Aren't these people, like, your friends? Like...
- Paula: They're not my friends. No, they're not my friends.
- Tanya McQuoid: Both my parents mentally abused me and, and, and my mother still tortures me, and she's dead. And I still have her ashes. I carry them around. So now you see, that's the core of the onion. It's already... This is it. This is the core of the onion, and I don't want to... I want you to get out of here and save yourself because I'm just like a, I'm like a dead end, you know? This is a trap door. And I think you should get out. And I want you to take these things.
- Greg Hunt: Whoa.
- Tanya McQuoid: I want you to take 'em. I want you to get out of here now!
- Greg Hunt: The f... I'm not gonna take your dead mother's ashes.
- Tanya McQuoid: I want you to get them out of here.
- Greg Hunt: What the fuck am I supposed to do with them?
- Tanya McQuoid: I don't know. Put them in the trunk of your car. Just get them out of here. You can put them in a trashcan.
- Greg Hunt: You're fucking crazy.
- Tanya McQuoid: It's who I am. And I... There's nothing I can do about it. Please get out. Please. Get out. Greg, I told you to get the fuck out.
- Greg Hunt: No. I still wanna fuck you.
- Tanya McQuoid: Really?
- Greg Hunt: Yeah. Come here, crazy. Come on.
- Tanya McQuoid: Okay.
- Greg Hunt: You're not really cuckoo.