- Georgina Hobart: [to Payton] You can't teach kindness. You know, I tried for a long time. Can't do much with small hearts - hard hearts, maybe, but not small ones.
- Georgina Hobart: [to Payton] Your generation got the terrible idea that it was best to vomit every thought and felling all over each other. It's a pandemic of over-communication that's led to an absence of intimacy.
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- Payton Hobart: [in his admissions interview] It was a waking dream, the kind that arrives between sleep and the real world. I sat straight up in bed and said out loud, I'm going the be president of the United States.
- Payton Hobart: It was a waking dream, the kind that arrives in the twilight between sleep and the real world. I sat straight up in bed and said out loud: 'I'm gonna be president of the United States.'
- River Barkley: I don't want you to appear more authentic, I want you to be more authentic.
- Astrid Sloan: I don't understand, what's the difference?
- Payton Hobart: You know, the moment you win I'm gonna tell everyone that we had sex and that you're living a lie. So, there's that.