Scene 2

• [Blanche's dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella's bed] - Scene Two
• [airily]'Hello, Stanley! Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented, and feeling like a brand-new human being!' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be - attractive?' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you.' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side I should think.' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'These are love-letters, yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy. [He snatches them up. She speaks fiercely.] Give those back to me!' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'The touch of your hands insults them!' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him in the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can't!' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'Here all of them are, all papers! I hereby endow you with them! ... I think it's wonderfully fitting that Belle Reve should finally be this bunch of old papers in your big capable hands!' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'I was flirting with your husband, Stella!' - Blanche, Scene Two
• 'The blind are - leading the blind!' - Blanche, Scene Two