“The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“...because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“But you said you no longer care for the world's opinion," I said to him, "nor will I.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“...most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
