p. 95

"Oh, I wish I'd been here a long time. I don't like being new here.-How do  you do, Mr. Stimson?

• To Everyone and Simon
• Said by: Emily
• She's in the graveyard
•  Significance: Talks about how people don't like to be new, and they wish things that can't happen.

p. 95

"We wanted to show you the new barn and a great long ce-ment drinking fountain for the stock. We bought that out of the money you left us."

• To: Mrs. Gibbs
• Said by: Emily
• In the graveyard
• Significance: It shows how Mrs. Gibbs didn't end up going to Paris because it didn't really matter.

p. 95

"I did?"

• To: Emily
• Said by: Mrs. Gibbs
• Their in the graveyard
• Significance: Shows that the things you want in life shouldn't be material and stuff, because overtime, you'll forget about it, and it won't matter anymore.

p. 96

"Live people don't understand, do they?"

• To: Mrs. Gibbs
• Said by: Emily
• In the graveyard
• Significance: It shows that it takes a whole lifetime to understand the true meaning of how life should be lived.

p. 97

"I never realized before how troubled and how... how in the dark live persons are."

• To: Mrs. Gibbs
• Said by: Emily
• In the graveyard
• Significance: Shows that people worry about the things that are not important in life. It's as if they're in a box and in the dark.

p. 98

"I can go back there and live all those days over again... why not?

• To: Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Soames
• Said by: Emily
• In the graveyard
• Significance: It shows that even though you're not currently living the moment, you can go back in memory.

p. 98

"But I won't live over a sad day. I'll choose a happy one-I'll choose the day I first knew that I loved George. Why should that be painful?"

• To: Mrs. Soames and Mrs. Gibbs
• Said by: Emily
• In the graveyard
• Significance: Emily is starting to feel doubtful about going back and reliving her life in memory because the dead seem so sure that it's a bad idea. They even said that they've done it before and they regret it.

p. 99

"You not only live it; but you watch yourself living it."

To: Audience

Said by: Stage Manager

On stage

Significance: The stage manager is explaining that it's a bad idea to go back and relive memories because you can't change any of them and you will regret the things you do and say. Also you'll realize that you're not there anymore and you'll wish you were.

p. 100

"No!- At least, choose an unimportant day. Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough."

• To: Emily
• Said by: Mrs. Gibbs
• In the graveyard
• Significance: Mrs. Gibbs is saying that even the days that you think are unimportant, they are because each day, no matter how you think of it, is an oppurtunity and a chance to do something that you won't regret later.

• To: Mr. Stimson
• Said by: Emily
• In the graveyard
• Significance: It's ironic because Emily went back to relive her life and now she finally understands that she should have listened to Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Soames. Then, she goes to the suicide to ask for help.

p. 109

"Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years.  To be always at mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know-that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance is bliss.

To: Emily

Said by: Simon Stimson

In the graveyard

Significance: Even though Simon is talking to Emily, he's talking to himself to. He was always walking around drunk and ignoring the people who cared about him and overtime, he killed himself. It showed that when you go back and realize what you missed in life, you feel bad. The worse part was, Simon needed to learn this lesson the most and it took his life to learn it. Then he said, "Ignorance is bliss."