- Geoffrey Firmin: How, unless you drink as I do, can you hope to understand the beauty of an old indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
- Yvonne Firmin: [dressed to go to the fiesta] Ready?
- Geoffrey Firmin: [surprised] You are... you are...
- Yvonne Firmin: Thank you.
- Geoffrey Firmin: No si puede vivir sin amar.
- Yvonne Firmin: What?
- Geoffrey Firmin: One cannot live without love.
- Geoffrey Firmin: He on whose heart the dust of Mexico has lain, will find no peace in any other land.
- Geoffrey Firmin: Hugh! Where are you? Where can the young pup be? Hugh! An emissary calls! The Consul of Cuckold's Haven! Come and give the wife a welcome back kiss!
- Geoffrey Firmin: Knock! Knock!
- Yvonne Firmin: Who's there?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Cat.
- Yvonne Firmin: Cat who?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Catastrophe.
- Hugh Firmin: Geoff, what possesses you?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Sobriety, I'm afraid. Too much moderation. I need drink desperatly to get my balance back.
- Geoffrey Firmin: Hey! There it is! We ought to go - to the fiesta!
- Yvonne Firmin: What? Now?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Yes, it will be all gone tomorrow. I mean, we ought to. Unless, of course, you're too fagged?
- Geoffrey Firmin: The whole world will learn to laugh at the sight of stinking cadavers. Oh, ha! Ha! Ha! Bloody, ha! Ha! Ha!
- Yvonne Firmin: They look so serene.
- Geoffrey Firmin: Our ever present guardian angels.
- Yvonne Firmin: Popocatépetl and his sleeping lady. We should pay them a visit.
- Geoffrey Firmin: Now, that's the spirit. After the bulls, we'll pop up old Popo and look into the hot heart of the volcano.
- Yvonne Firmin: All right, Geoffrey. We can talk about it when you're rested.
- Geoffrey Firmin: When I'm sober, you mean? Surely, you know by this time that I can't get drunk however much I drink and that I'm only drunk in the conventional, incoherent, staggering sense when I haven't had a drink. Surely, you appreciate the fine balance I must strike between the shakes of too little and the abyss of too much?
- Yvonne Firmin: I do appreciate it.
- Geoffrey Firmin: Yes. Quite. Well.
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