As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Babul: There's no present like the time.
Evelyn Greenslade: How was America?
Muriel Donnelly: It made death more tempting.
Muriel Donnelly: There's no such thing as an ending; just a place where you leave the story.
Babul: Some you win and some you learn.
Sonny Kapoor: It takes team work to make a dream work.
Ty Burley: I came to pay my respects. There's nothing I respect more than someone planting trees under whose shade they may never sit.
Muriel Donnelly: I came with low expectations and I was disappointed.
Sonny Kapoor: Why die here... when I can die there!
Sonny Kapoor: Coincidence is just a word for when we cannot see the bigger picture.
Sonny Kapoor: The man has me urgently questioning my own sexuality.
Muriel Donnelly: You're still in one slightly sagging piece, I see.
Muriel Donnelly: There is no such thing as an ending, just a place were you leave the story. And is your story now.
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Muriel Donnelly: You have no idea now what you will become, don't try and control it. Let go. That's when the fun starts. Because as I once heard someone say "There's no present like the time".
Sonny Kapoor: If not now, when? If not us, who?
Muriel Donnelly: Someone else...
Douglas Ainslie: Big night isn't it? A happy conclusion to a slightly bumpy journey. That's really the point isn't it, for all relationships, the journey. It's not enough to stand still. There's gotta be... progress. Movement towards something. Because the really frustrating thing is we could be madly happy. And not to go after that, and not to take the risk when it's so close you could almost reach out and... touch it. The great and terrible thing about life, there's just so much bloody... potential. All of which is almost certainly nonsense, and I've no idea what I'm talking about.