Daphne Sullivan quotes from The White Lotus

Daphne Sullivan

I'd hate to be a man, honestly. It'd just be so lonely. I mean, they're so competitive. It's like, can they even be friends with each other? [inhales] Cameron and I went on a safari and, um, on safari, you see all these pods of elephants and they're all, like, bathing in the river and playing with each other and it's so sweet. But it's just the moms and the babies. Because when the boy elephants get too big, they kick them out of the pod. And then the bull elephant has to, like, wander through the jungle by himself for the rest of his life. I feel sorry for men, you know. It's like... they think they're out there doing something really important. but really they're just wandering alone.

Daphne Sullivan

[to Ethan, after he told her about Cameron and Harper] I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Daphne Sullivan

I mean, we never really know what goes on in people's minds or what they do, right? You spend every second with somebody and there's still this part that's a mystery. You know? You don't have to know everything to love someone. A little mystery? It's kinda sexy.

Daphne Sullivan

I'm a mystery to myself. Honestly, I surprise myself all the time. I think you just... you just... do whatever you have to do not to feel like a victim of life. You know? Just use your imagination.

Ethan Spiller

Hey, what is with these head things? We keep seeing them everywhere.

Testa di Moro.

Ethan Spiller

Testa di Moro?

Yeah. Well, the story is a Moor came here a long time ago and seduced a local girl. But then she found out that he had a wife and children back home. So, because he lied to her, she cut his head off.

Ethan Spiller

Oh.

Cameron Sullivan

Jesus.

Ethan Spiller

So if you put one of those outside of your house, what are you saying?

Cameron Sullivan

If you come into my house, don't fuck my wife.

Daphne Sullivan

It's a warning to husbands, babe. Screw around and you'll end up buried in the garden.

Cameron Sullivan

Why? Why can't you sleep?

Daphne Sullivan

Just, like work stuff?

Harper Spiller

Yeah, but also just... I don't know, just everything that's going on... in the world.

Daphne Sullivan

What do you mean? What's going on?

Harper Spiller

Oh, I don't know. Just, like, the end of the world.

Daphne Sullivan

Oh. No, Harper!

Cameron Sullivan

Oh, come on!

Daphne Sullivan

The world's not ending, it's not that bad. Honestly, Cam and I don't even watch the news anymore.

Cameron Sullivan

Yeah.

Ethan Spiller

You don't follow the news?

Daphne Sullivan

No.

Ethan Spiller

What?

Cameron Sullivan

Like, I'm just so over the whole news cycle, you know? It's... it's like, gimme a break.

Daphne Sullivan

They're just trying to freak everybody out.

Cameron Sullivan

Yeah. They're just polarizing society by making us glued to their apocalyptic soap opera, you know? It's like...

Daphne Sullivan

Yeah. And even if it was as bad as they say it is, I mean what can you really do, you know?

Cameron Sullivan

Right.

Daphne Sullivan

We vote, we donate money. You can't obsess.

Ethan Spiller

So much content now. It's like there's billions of shows, everyone's trying to keep up. It's kinda suffocating, honestly. Yeah.

Harper Spiller

Too much. It's too much. It's like we're all entertaining each other while the world burns, right?

Ethan Spiller

We're all just zombies, you know, like...

Harper Spiller

Hmm.

Daphne Sullivan

I love a binge.

Ethan Spiller

Cameron would always sleep with the girls that I liked, but before I could get to them. If I ever told him that I liked a girl, he would swoop in and have sex with them within a week.

Daphne Sullivan

Cameron. Rude.

Ethan Spiller

You have a bad case of something called mimetic desire.

Daphne Sullivan

What's that?

Ethan Spiller

If someone with higher status than you wants something, it means it's more likely that you'll want it, too.

Cameron Sullivan

You did not have higher status than me.

Ethan Spiller

Not then, maybe. I mean, I was smarter than you. Maybe you thought that fucking women I had a connection with would make you smarter.