27 Quotes About Melodrama

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.

What you know is not always important.

Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?

Start talking in plain English so I can understand what you’re blabbing about, or I might misinterpret one of your little monologues as a confession.

She wants the Recognition… Damn all of you and your Recognition!

My God, he is poisoned! See the froth on his lips!

Who’s the crow that plays dove in our roost?

It is fallen from its tree, and can never return to its branch; this is like you - fallen from your branch.

I am no fruit, My Lord.