Curtain Quotes

What curtains reveal, and what they're built to hide.

This collection uses the curtain as both a stage cue and a symbol, opening with a wish to remove the curtain of pretence from a character's face. A broadcaster's memory of never wanting an act-one curtain interruption sits alongside quotes tagged Air.


Elsewhere, the Iron Curtain marks a childhood spent behind a real political divide before immigrating at twelve, and one line simply notes a tense heart before its own curtain. See also After quotes.