{"author":"Marsha Norman","author_id":"Marsha+Norman","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family  they just are.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["family"],"id":40056,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["boredom","ennui","suicide"],"id":66570,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["play"],"id":72569,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["children","women","violence "],"id":90892,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["change","people","think "],"id":110129,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["boredom","bus","bus-stop","busstations","ennui","suicide"],"id":147151,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"Dreams are illustrations...From the book your soul is writing about you.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["dreams"],"id":167984,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["boredom","ennui","suicide"],"id":228522,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["doubt","life","trust","unfair","unfairness","unfairness-of-life"],"id":258759,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"},{"text":"Mama:...You can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up.Jessie: I'm NOT giving up. This IS the other thing I'm trying. And I'm sure there are some other things that might work, but MIGHT work isn't good enough any more. I need something that WILL work. THIS will work. That's why I picked it.","author":"Marsha Norman","tags":["play"],"id":274417,"author_id":"Marsha+Norman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}