Quotes from Sarah Kane

A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone.

We made love, and then she threw up.

only love can save me and love has destroyed me

If there is a God, I'd like to look him in the face knowing I'd died as I lived. In conscious sin.

A very long silence.) - But you have friends. (A long silence.) You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive? (A long silence.) What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive? (A long silence.) What do you offer? (Silence.) -----

the only thing that's permanent is destruction we're all going to disappear trying to leave a mark more permanent that myself.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

M The heat is going out of me. C The heart is going out of me. B I feel nothing, nothing. I feel nothing.

But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave what do you offer. " ...if I could remember any more of my lines I'd add them so basically this is a preface to the whole play. I would like to quote the whole play. Currently my mind is afraid to remember the play.

please open the curtains

Your hair is an act of God.

You can only kill yourself if you're not already dead.

Your disbelief cures nothing.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass

I sing without hope on the boundary

No one can hate me more than I hate myself.

Some will call this self-indulgence (They are lucky not to know its truth) Some will know the simple fact of pain This is becoming my normality

Because love by its nature desires a future.

Phaedra: I wanted to see your face when you came. Hippolytus: Why? Phaedra: I'd like to see you lose yourself. Hippolytus: It's not a pleasant sight. Phaedra: Why, what do you look like? Hippolytus: Every other stupid fucker.

and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I used to love you. - What's changed? - You. - No. Now you see me. That's all.

I won't be able to think. I won't be able to work. Nothing will interfere with your work like suicide

I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands.

I cannot touch my essential self.