{"author":"Sarah Ruhl","author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"Every day as I wave to my children when I drop them off at school, or let one of them have a new experience—like crossing the street without holding my hand—I experience the struggle between love and non-attachment. It is hard to bear—the extreme love of one’s child and the thought that ultimately the child belongs to the world. There is this horrible design flaw—children are supposed to grow up and away from you; and one of you will die first.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["children","design","die","experience","extreme","flaw","grow-up","horrible","love","new","non-attachment","struggle","world"],"id":2651,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly— And things that meet each other slowly are kind.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["kindness","slowly","snow"],"id":6150,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["parenthood","writing"],"id":49588,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["disappointment","play","weddings"],"id":51436,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["guilt","humor"],"id":66718,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why is it, that when we've just started to live, we grow dull, gray, uninteresting, lazy, useless, with flattened-out souls?","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["anton-chekhov","drama","theatre","three-sisters"],"id":67438,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["fully","grace","inside","live","motherhood","predicament"],"id":79776,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["attention","children"],"id":99305,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["daughters","fathers","fathers-and-daughters","marriage","play","weddings"],"id":108057,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"I have loved enough women to know how to paint.If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["illustrator","love","painter","poet","women"],"id":132956,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}