No Exit Flashcards
Garcin: Ah, I…
see; it’s life without a break.
Inez: You?…
Why, the torturer, of course.
Inez: I’ve often…
watched my face in the glass.
Inez: Can’t you keep..
your mouth still? You keep twisting it about all the time. It’s grotesque.
Estelle: I loathe men in
their shirt-sleeves.
Estelle: “I can’t
imagine why they put us three together. It doesn’t make sense.
Inez: This room
was all set for us. (Uncomfortable, out of place..)
Inez: I mean that
each of us will act as a torturer of the two others. (G- “I shall never be your torturer”)
Estelle: But how…
…empty it is, a glass in which I’m absent!
Inez: Do I…
…look as if I wanted to hurt you?
Inez: I’m your…
lark mirror, my dear, and you can’t escape me…
Inez: I’m rather…
…cruel, really.
Inez: Like a live…
…coal. A live coal in others hearts. When I’m alone I flicker out.
Estelle: I darent…
…be left alone with Inez, now she’s shown her claws.
Estelle: Kiss me darling ——
…then You’ll hear her squeal.
