August: Osage County
Tracy Letts
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.”
“My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”
“I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.”
“We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”
“You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.”
“Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.”
“All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.”
“Time wounds all heals.”
“Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.”
“Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed.”
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Book Keywords:
makeup, grief, loss, death, time, damaged, midwest, family, character, life, women, state-of-mind, dichotomy, books, plains
