- 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: 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.