Emma: But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.
Adèle: I miss you. I miss not touching each other. Not seeing each other, not breathing in each other. I want you. All the time. No one else.
Emma: Enjoying philosophy?
Adèle: [laughs] I love it. It's incredibly enriching. Very interesting. Very deep. Orgasm precedes essence.
Emma: Your grade better be good.
Adèle: Give me a grade.
Emma: Fourteen.
Adèle: Fourteen? Just fourteen?
Emma: [laughs] You still need some practice.
Adèle: I'll give it all I've got.
Emma: Something to say?
Adèle: I don't know.
Emma: What?
Adèle: I wanted to know, when was the first time you tasted...
Emma: Tasted a sausage?
Adèle: Tasted a girl.
Emma: A girl? You mean kiss or taste?
Adèle:
[chuckles] Kiss. To start with, then we'll see.
Emma: I was fourteen. Sometime around then. There was a party, all the girls had guys. I went out with Louise - that was her name, Louise. We didn't kiss at the party, but... I invited her to sleep over. That's when we kissed.
Adèle: Have you always preferred girls?
Emma: I
tried both. I dated guys, girls, and I realized I preferred girls. For sure.
Emma: What's your name?
Adèle: Adèle.
Emma: Pretty name, Adèle.
Emma: Adèle means something in Arabic. I think it means mmmm...
[thinking]
Emma: Sun.
Emma: [Adèle nodding] Hope.
Emma: [Adèle nodding] Love.
Adèle: [laughing] It means justice.
Emma: "Existence precedes essence."
Emma: I was big on Sartre in high school.
Adèle: Really?
Emma: It did me good. Especially in affirming my freedom and my own values. And the rigorousness of his commitments. I agree with it.
Adèle: Sort of like Bob Marley. Almost.
Emma: [laughs] I'm not so sure of it.
Adèle: I'm almost sure of it. Their ideas are similar. You know "Get Up, Stand Up"?
Emma: Yeah I know it.
Adèle: He's committed.
Emma: [Nodding in agreement] It's true.
Adèle: Same as Sartre. A philosopher, a prophet, same thing.