“Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.”
“Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.”
“Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?”
“Tillie studied her mother’s face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.”
“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...”
“For the first time in twenty-one years, I want to be kissed. I want to feel his mouth on mine.”