Banafsheh

“DAVID. I don't believe this is a prayer for regret or remorse
Or whatever. I think he's ... I think he's surprised at who
He is ... who he really is.
I think he's looking down blood on his fingers and he saying,
"What am I Lord?"
What a marvellous and fearful thing am I?
Are all of us, sir.
HEADMASTER. David did you hit Pharus Young?
DAVID. I had prayed over it, so many times. Just kept praying
On it. Every time it would happen.
HEADMASTER. Every time?
DAVID. And the Lord was silent. I mean when I got called
To be a minister I could feel the Spirit but when I was
Asking him to make this ... make it ... go away
He fell so quiet
And I ain't have nobody but Pharus. You understand, sir?
It was us alone in it until I thought I heard somebody come
In and ...
HEADMASTER. What are you saying son?
DAVID. I should have waited on the Lord.
I didn't look to see where it was leading until it was too late ...
HEADMASTER. You ...
DAVID. 'Til I looked at my hands and some of the blood spilling was my own. (Shifts.)”
― Tarell Alvin McCraney, Choir Boy

“Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble, ça va mieux.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

“He couldn’t breathe, either. His lungs had been stolen by the darkness. He sputtered and clutched his backpack close to him, both arms wrapped around it like a life raft. Gulliver chirped, not knowing any better. Or maybe he did, and he was saying good-bye.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“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