- Annette: [to Patrick] She might not have been the perfect mother. That must anger you. But sometimes those who deserve the most blame also deserve the most compassion.
- Patrick Melrose: I was thinking how life is just the history of things we pay attention to. The rest is just packaging.
- Patrick Melrose: I've decided I'm bored of ghosts. I want to see people instead.
- Mary Melrose: Oh, I see. OK.
- Patrick Melrose: Or is it too late to change my mind?
- Mary Melrose: Not at all. After all, that's what it's for. The boys will be delighted to see you.
- Johnny: Lovely venue.
- Patrick Melrose: Yes, I'm thinking of getting cremated here myself.
- Johnny: Well, no need to rush.
- Patrick Melrose: I was going to wait until I die.
- Patrick Melrose: I was thinking how life is just the history of things we pay attention to. The rest is just packaging.
- Annette: Maya Angelou says the meaning of life is the impact we have on other people, whether we make them feel good or not.
- Julia: Still not given up irony, then?
- Patrick Melrose: Hardest addiction of all. Forget heroine, that need to mean two things at once...
- Julia: I'm having enough trouble wearing nicotine patches and smoking at the same time. Don't take my irony, leave me with a little sarcasm!
- Patrick Melrose: Sarcasm doesn't count. That only means one thing.
- Julia: [Smiling] Quality freak.
- Annette: Amazing man, completely unique.
- Patrick Melrose: Let's hope so. The idea of a whole village full of Nicolas Pratts is rather terrifying.
- Johnny: How are you bearing up?
- Patrick Melrose: Weirdly elated. I think my mother's death is the best thing to have happened to me since,well, my father's death.
- Johnny: I'm sure it's a little more complicated than that.
- Patrick Melrose: You're the psychiatrist.
- Johnny: Psychotherapist.
- Patrick Melrose: Oh, whatever.
- Mary Melrose: This is hell! This is like living in hell! You! You of all people should know this is intolerable. You know how you always say: "The service is in tolerable.", "The noise is intolerable."? Well this... this is FUCKING INTOLERABLE! I am NOT Eleanor and I will NOT stand by and watch this disgusting, pitiful spectacle of you destroying yourself. And I certainly won't let the boys watch it either - it's too much! And it has gone on for too long! If you truly are determined to drink yourself to death, well now you have a flat to go and do it in!