Banafsheh

“PHARUS. Wan't a fight.
HEADMASTER. So, what, you fell?
PHARUS. Fight mean you put your hands up and
Fight back. I just ... just took it.
HEADMASTER. Why ... why would you do that?
PHARUS. What you fight for, sir? What you fight
For? You fight when you believe what
You doing, what you are, is right. Huh.
Everybody 'round you always telling you, showing
You that you ain't nothing, that they don't
Want you to be nothing, what you fight
For then? What you defending?
You believe like, like they believe so
Who you fighting for?”
― Tarell Alvin McCraney, Choir Boy

“I would like nothing better than to see you die, Mr. McKinney. However, this is the time to begin the healing process. To show mercy to someone who refused to show any mercy. Mr. McKinney, I am going to grant you life, as hard as it is for me to do so, because of Matthew. Every time you celebrate Christmas, a birthday, the fourth of July, remember that Matt isn't. Every time you wake up in your prison cell, remember that you had the opportunity and the ability to stop your actions that night. You robbed me of something very precious. and I will never forgive you for that. Mr. McKinney, I give you life in the memory of the one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.”
― Moisés Kaufman, The Laramie Project

“It was true about guinea pigs. They weren’t supposed to live alone. Virgil wished he’d never learned that, because now he was convinced that Gulliver suffered from debilitating depression. The poor black-and-white rodent had been by himself for the past eighteen months, and Virgil couldn’t help but think he’d been pining the hours away in desperate loneliness.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“Dookie: At the end my mom couldn't even walk to the corner.
Heffer: At the end my dad couldn't even make it up the stairs. They had to move the bedroom into the living room.
Bitsy: My dad wouldn't come out of the basement. They had to put a chemical toilet in.
Heffer: My dad had to be on oxygen to watch the hockey game.
Bitsy: My mom can't stand at the sink to wash her own face.
Dookie: Hips?
Bitsy: Knees.
Dookie: Those go fast.
Boots: It's just a matter of time.
Dookie: Yeah.
Bitsy: Yeah.
Heffer: Yup.
Dookie: Yeah.
Boots: Yeah.
Bitsy: Yeah.
Heffer: Yup.”
― Daniel MacIvor, Bingo!