Gretchen Youn

“candy-ass people find candy-ass ways to express their opinions—now there was a truth waiting to be engraved over some library’s entrance.”
― David Wroblewski, Familiaris

“Crickey, love, what happened here? Are you hurt?” he asked, lifting her to her feet, the surfboard leash still wrapped around her foot.

Her eyes worked their way up his torso, along the plush green towel hugging his midsection. Catherine couldn’t help staring at his well-formed abs and chest before making her way up to his concerned eyes.

“Obviously I fell,” Catherine said. “I think I got a splinter.”

“Let me see,” Jake insisted, taking her hand into his. “It’s small. I can take care of that in a snap.”

Staring up into his deep blue eyes, Catherine could feel herself drowning in the depths of them, unconsciously resting her other hand upon his dampened chest to steady herself.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

“The law in this land is what the white man says it is, mister. Plain and simple.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“… works of any degree of seriousness, they’re presenting some question as to what is real and what is simply ephemera.

I mean no play is finished. Plays are abandoned. And they’re abandoned because you can only get so close and then that… it doesn’t allow you to come any closer… to the hidden narrative, the hidden truth of what’s going on… Yeah, there is a resemblance [to kabbalah]. It’s almost as though the human being is the work of the imagination, of somebody’s imagination, maybe God’s imagination.

I’m not sure [a play is great because of] what its saying about human nature. I think its the process of… approaching the unwritten and the unspoken and the unspeakable. And the closer you get to it, the more life there seems to be.”
― Arthur Miller