Simon Stephens > Quotes

“You want to know the truth about the poor in this country? They're not cool. They're not soulful. They're not honest. They're not the salt of the fucking earth. They're thick. They're myopic. They're violent. They're drunk most of the time. They like shit music. They wear shit clothes. They tell shit jokes. They're racist, most of them, and homophobic, the lot of them. They have tiny parameters of possibility and a minuscule spirit of enquiry or investigation. They would be better off staying in their little holes and fucking each other. And killing each other.”
― Simon Stephens, Motortown

“William: Do you ever think about the person you wished you were?
Lilly: Sometimes.
William: When I think of that person, do you know what I realise?
Lilly: What?
William: I realize I am him.”
― Simon Stephens

“You know that feeling, when you walk through the woods at night and you see a light, like a small light shining in the distance and so then you don’t notice your tiredness anymore. Or the darkness. Or the sharp branches when they hit you in your face. I'm sorry. It. Sometimes I do get. I get quite depressed. And the thing is. There’s no light in the trees for me.”
― Simon Stephens, Vanya