Lynn Nottage Quotes

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I must admit I have never told anyone this before, but Sister Abigail is older than my essence.

For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.

The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

I think we got in more trouble with Aunt Tasha,ʺ said Christian. ʺShe was kind of pissed off that we didnʹt tell her what was going on. I think she probably wanted to blow up the statues herself.

No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.