Sappho

Phil:
And? What comes next?

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

Sappho:
Perhaps we should decide for ourselves.

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.