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" I’ve learned the hard way that the best idea in the world can be hell to write if it doesn’t resonate with you on some level."

"The best short screenplays are deeply felt and highly specific."

“My hands and tongue and long-suffering heart, my hair cut short, all call him home.”

“I live with my husband, but I’m married to death.”

“Fists pound out hard on my cropped head the rhythm of my life, in harmony with your death.”

Electra referring to Hades and her father interchangeably, as if they’re the same person, is really itching my brain.

"As the waves cover your head, you'll see how your life is just a loan that's come due."

"If I could, I’d grow tongues in my arms and hands
and hair, in the soles of my feet - a thousand tongues
all talking, all crying together, in one voice clinging
to your knees, begging you, imploring you[.]"

"Stunningly new; newly stunning, what I see here. I see all now."

"Don't disturb my dusty grief."

"She is my solace. She is my staff, my nurse, my guide. She is my Troy."