Silvia Broome: Do you know that the leading cause of death for beavers is falling trees?
Silvia Broome: Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.
Silvia Broome: I walked away from Africa with nothing. No brother, no family, no lover, nothing... Just a belief that words and compassion are the better way. Even if it's slower than a gun.
Silvia Broome: What do you do when you can't sleep?
Tobin Keller: I stay awake.
Tracy: Ask God how many shots of bourbon he had before he cut me open.
Satine: Tell our story Christian, that way I'll-I'll always be with you.
Christian and Satine: Come what may, I will love you until my dying day.
Zidler: Send Christian away.
Satine: He will fight for me.
Zidler: Unless he believes that you don't love him.
Satine: What?
Zidler: You're a great actress, Satine. Make him believe that you don't love him.
Satine: No!
Zidler: Use your talent to save him! Hurt him, Satine. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on. We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.
Charlotte Bless: I'm not gonna blow a friendship over a stupid little blowjob.
Julia Kelly: So do you think he set us up?
Thomas Devoe: Who?
Julia Kelly: Your friend.
Thomas Devoe: No.
Julia Kelly: How can you be so sure?
Thomas Devoe: Because he's my friend.
Thomas Devoe: It doesn't make sense. You don't... You don't kill a Dimitri Vertikoff. There are certain rules - killing him isn't useful.
Julia Kelly: Is it ever?
Costello: Urinalysis from a Moscow traffic stop last month, .367.
Julia Kelly: I'm amazed he could turn the key.
Costello: Yeah, that's definitely a few cocktails.
Sally Owens: What would you do, Gilly?
Gillian Owens: What wouldn't I do... for the right guy?
Sally Owens: You really should stop smoking so much.
Gillian Owens: Why? I'll probably get life. I should smoke two at once. It'll shorten the sentence.
Gillian Owens: I love you.
Sally Owens: I love you too, Gilly Bean.
Gillian Owens: Hang onto your husbands, girls.
Gertrude Bell: Paradise has no time, age or sanctuary. Awaits us.
Gertrude Bell: I operate for no-one.
Sir Mark Sykes: What is it then that attracts you to the Bedouin out there?
Gertrude Bell: Something that you and your world you can not ever understand. It's their freedom. It's their dignity. It's their poetry of life.
Charles Doughty-Wylie: Will you write to me?
Gertrude Bell: Yes, I'll write to you from every post office in the desert.
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