Honour (NHB Modern Plays)

I love – (Beat.) – To be loved

have a tally of my ambitions: my rates of success, my sorrows, all I once hoped for, all that has been met,

I haven’t denied myself anything? Only my life!

And what if the truth is that we do not know love because we do not know how to deny ourselves anything?

The heart is the truth.

Why does the heart take precedence?

HONOR. Like us?

CLAUDIA. Bookish. Clever. Idealistic. I invented you. I dreamt you up. I knew you before I even met you, Honor – I glimpsed the future.

HONOR

I longed for parents like you.

You think it’s inane to love order but order was my freedom

You take half my misery and I’ll take half your new found joy.