Bitter Water Opera Quotes

“Only a small part of the preservation work was keeping her together through artifacts. Her paintings, costumes, compositions, letters. The crown jewel- the opera house. All of it, her life in objects, could be gone in a moment, through flood or fire, and they knew that well. Time wins over time.
What survives materiality is a story.”
― Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera

“There was a limerence for another world that destroyed all joy. I began calling it "limes" as some lovely-dumb nickname. Some days I was "heavy with limes," and more and more days I had none, or one that I could easily throw into the pond.”
― Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera