Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time. - Thornton Wilder

EMILY:

Softly, more in wonder than in grief.

I can’t bear it. They’re so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I’m here. I’m grown up. I love you all, everything. — I can’t look at everything hard enough.

On Friday noon, July twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.

Many plays — certainly mine — are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.