tragedy

• “her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth”.
• Blanche: Only mr edgar allan poe!- could do it justice! Out there I suppose is the ghoul-haunted woodland of weir!
• Blanche: I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone! Because– as you must have noticed– I’m not very well…
• Blanche: I know that youre bound to reproach me– but before you do-take into consideration– you left ! I stayed and struggled!
• Blanche:.. I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!
• BLANCHE: [singing in the bathroom] From the land of sky blue water, they brought a captive maid!
• BLANCHE: These are love letters, yellowing from antiquity. BLANCHE: Now that you’ve touched them I’ll have to burn them
• BLANCHE; …fathers and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications
• EUNICE: She ain’t coming down so you quit! Or you’ll git th’ law on you!
• STELLA: He smashed all the light-bulbs with the heel of my slipper [she laughs]
• BLANCHE: Of course you remember Shep Huntleigh. I went out with him at college and wore his pin for a while.
• In this dark march to whatever we’re approaching
• I’m looking for the Pleiades, the seven sisters, but they aren’t out tonight
• Je suis la Dame aux Camellias
• Her future is mapped out for her
• MITCH: I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in the light
• After the death of Allan- intimacies with strangers was all I was able to fill my empty heart with.
• I lived in a house where dying old women remembered their dead men
• It came like a bolt from the blue
• Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable… the one thing of which I have never, ever been guilty
• She has a tragic radiance in her red satin robe following the sculptural lines of her body
• as if all human experience shows on her face
• sewn up in a clean white sack
• He kneels beside her and finds the opening of her blouse