Summer Lover (2008)

Avalon Barrie: Sappho Lovell

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• Sappho : You can marry Helene. You can have her if you like.

  Phil : I'm not a Turk. I can't have two wives. It's in the rules.

  Sappho : Don't be so boring, Phil. There are no rules in this game. There's nothing we can imagine that's not allowed. What's love is love.

  Phil : Well, what's loyalty is that too. Don't you care if I sleep with other women now?

  Sappho : You can sleep with other boys too if you like.

  [to Helene] 

  Sappho : Will you marry my husband?

  Helene : Yes.

  Sappho : Then it's perfect. It's all that simple. We can all be married to one another.

• Phil : And? What comes next?

  Helene : It's lost. We'll never know.

  Sappho : Perhaps we should decide for ourselves.

• Phil : Don't you understand? Nothing good will come out of this game. All of us being together will not last. We'll take sides, get jealous, and start to hate one another.

  Sappho : Just like it happens when two normal people get married?

  Phil : Maybe. But that's how it is most times. It's the way nature meant it to be.

  Sappho : [to Helene]  You see Helene, that's what makes Phil a bad painter. He paints ordinary pictures that ordinary people will buy.

• Sappho : I love you.

  Helene : Why?

  Sappho : Do I need a reason? I just do.

  Helene : Don't you care about Phil?

  Sappho : Of course I care about Phil. But making love with you feels just right.

  Helene : But that's where you're wrong. This is how girls fool around when there are no men around.

  Sappho : How is a woman making love to another woman any different then a woman making love to a man?

• Helene : Have you come to say goodbye?

  Sappho : Goodbye?

  Helene : Aren't you going home? To America?

  Sappho : I am home. This is Lesbos... and I am a lesbian. I've always known who I am. This is my home.

  Helene : It's so boring here. You are welcome to it.

  Sappho : It's like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It's the hardest thing loving someone who doesn't love you.

  Helene : I'm sorry. It's not my fault.

  Sappho : Come and be my girl. To feel your face and hear your footsteps, I'd give the world.

  Helene : I am a woman now. I have made love to you and your husband. I want a husband of my own and children. You can't give me what I want.