#heat

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you? ↗

— Daniel Handler

#broke-up #cheating #anger

Suddenly all the fight and anger in him seemed to ebb and he shook his head, taking another swallow of the biting liquor. His fingers were wrapped tightly around the glass. Lucy remained silent, sitting down on the edge of the bed and watching him as he drank the rest of the second glass of whiskey. He was in pain. She was helpless to do anything for him until he let down some of the walls. Ask me to hold you . . . here are my arms, ready to wrap around you. Here is my heart… just ask. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#lisa-kleypas #love-come-to-me #lucy #anger

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #art forms #being #forms #greatest

Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be… instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cheater #cheating #life #love #relationships

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#play #playing-roles #stage #theater #art

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning. ↗

— Meg Howrey

#dance #performance #theatre #art

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too ↗

— Lucien Bourjeily

#actor #actress #immersive #interactive-theater #multisensory

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. ↗

— Tony Perez

#could #country #family #feel #heat

He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that. ↗

— Marshall Thornton

#change

And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind'—putting words into other people's mouths. And those people are played by people whose profession is to pretend to be other people. For which purpose, they adopt gestures, voices, intonations, even sexual attitudes not their own. On stage, they affect to be ravished and amused by someone whom they will, afterwards, run a mile to avoid having dinner with. Likewise, they spit torrents of abuse against an actor who later, later, in the softness of the night, they will share their bed with. ↗

— David Hare

#attitude