the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake. - Sarah Ruhl

A girl, a woman who is two-thirds done, is nearer to God. A young woman on the verge of knowing herself is the most attractive thing on this earth to a man for this very reason.

Listen to her the way you would listen
to your own daughter
if she died too young
and tried to speak to you
across long distances.

There’s a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime – a whole word for just being sad – about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they’re going to die.” — Sarah Ruhl