The Unwanted Guest Quotes

“Palamedes: I loved you. I love you still. I would have worked out how to love you better over time.
Voice: It would have been very beautiful. Camilla would have had to cook. But I didn't just want beautiful ... I wanted it to last, and I wanted to wait, and I knew I couldn't have either. It's not that you were young and foolish, you know? It's just that you were young ... and I didn't want to steal any more youth from you. It made me feel rotten.
Palamedes: This again? From you and her both? That merely by loving you, I added to your torments?
Voice: (Encouragingly) Yes, and also my agonies.”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

“DULCINEA: "Was I cute?"

Palamedes turns and moves upstage.

PALAMEDES: "You're perfect.”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

“PALAMEDES: "May I see you?"
DULCINEA: "Are you sure?"
PALAMEDES: "For the first time, and the last.”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

“PALAMEDES: "If you're on the shore, then I'll find you."

DULCINEA: "Which shore?"

PALAMEDES: "Pardon?"

DULCINEA: "It's a river. There are two shores. If this ends well, you'll find that out.”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

“PALAMEDES: "So - hold on. You're telling me that you knew Tern, that you were paired with him, for even longer than I've known Camilla - that he must have sat next to you in the nursery and been at every single one of your undoubtedly insane birthday parties - and you don't in any way regret the fact that you killed and ate him?"

There is a pause.

IANTHE: "No.”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

“PALAMEDES: "You can do a lot of work with "if." "If I may-" that's, of course, a relatively well-documented example of a false courtesy. "May I?" - that's how you ask for permission, when you really want it. You only use "if I may" to preface something you're about to do anyway.”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

“PALAMEDES From her point of view, it all makes sense. Tern was shaped over years to be nothing more than—than—

VOICE A perfect tool?

PALAMEDES —a resource. Something to be saved up and then spent at just the right moment. Why would you hesitate to play an ace if it’s going to win you the game? Sentimental attachment from all the time it spent tucked up your sleeve?”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest