quotes

Cards (54)

  • Act 1 pg 2
    'I have not produced any children, are totally childless and therefore totally useless!' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 4
    'Monster of fertility' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 5
    'Motherhoods an experience that a woman ought to experience fully' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 8
    'I wasn't conscious of looking at you Maggie' - Brick
  • Act 1 pg 8
    'Living with someone you love can be lonelier - than living entirely alone' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 9
    'I'm sorry I never could keep my finger off a sore' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 10
    'The charm of the defeated' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 10
    'Like opening a door for a lady' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 10
    'What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? I wish I knew... Just staying on it I guess' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 11
    'Laws of silence don't work' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 11
    'Like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 11
    'Lean on me' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 11
    'I don't want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch' - Brick
  • Act 1 pg 12
    'I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 14
    'Haven't I served my term, can't I apply for a pardon?' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 15
    'Then jump off the roof' - Brick
  • Act 1 pg 16
    'But people have got to have some moments of privacy' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 21
    'Her voice is soft and trembling: a pleading child's'
  • Act 1 pg 24
    'two people in the same boat have got to take care of each other' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 25
    'You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 25
    'You asked too goddamn much of people that loved you' - Maggie
  • Act 1 pg 27
    'One man has one great good true thing in his life' - Brick
  • Act 1 pg 28
    'In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him the truth' - Maggie
  • Act 2 pg 36
    'All my family ever had was family' - Maggie
  • Act 2 pg 39
    'You're not taking over because I'm not dying' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 40
    'Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 41
    'I wasn't conscious of it' - Brick
  • Act 2 pg 42
    'You just sit tight and let them scratch each others eyes out' - Brick
  • Act 2 pg 44
    'The walls have ears in this place' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 44
    'Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?' - Big daddy
  • Act 2 pg 45
    'He can't buy back his life with it when his life has been spent' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 47
    'The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 48
    'I thought the old man mad bout of bones had laid his cold and heavy hand on my shoulder' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 - pg 52
    'Expecting death made me blind' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 54
    'The human machine is no different from the animal machine' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 56
    'Have you ever heard the word mendacity?' - Brick
  • Act 2 pg 56
    'Mendacity is one of them five-dollar words that cheap politicians throw back and forth at each other' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 58
    'I've lived with mendacity! - why can't you live with it?' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 58
    'That's not living, that's dodging away from life' - Big Daddy
  • Act 2 pg 64
    'Skipper and me had a clean, true friendship between us!' - Brick