如同曉茵說的，The Road to Mecca真的是一部非常非常sincere的play，正是因為它的sincerity所以touching。也如同曉茵說的，The Road to Mecca真的是一部表演超過文字的play，上週讀的時候對於作品和角色都好沒有感覺，只覺得為什麼文字這麼多氣氛這麼悶，但是當我選中了Elsa，開始每天狂念Elsa的台詞，我發現自己越念越懂、越念越愛、越念越深刻。更如同曉茵說的，The Road to Mecca帶有一種平靜卻雄厚巨大的力量，它是一部你完全不覺得會讓人感動到哭卻真的會讓你靜靜流出淚來的play。
關於自己認為「這樣根本就不對」的事會站出來，哪怕只有一個人，受不了了就會說受不了了。
Elsa: Rebellion starts, Miss Helen, with just one man or woman standing up and saying, "No. Enough!"
曾經遇到這輩子最了解自己的人，那是一種光用「幸福」兩字無法概括的幸福，卻也有一點點可怕，因為毫無隱藏自我的餘地。
Elsa: God, that was more than just happiness, Miss Helen. It was like discovering the reason for being the person, the woman, I am for the first time in my life. And a little bit scary...realizing that another person could do so much to your life, to your sense of yourself.
完全清楚自己想要什麼、在做什麼、結果會是什麼，若我仍舊堅持，那你們真的不需要再來好心告誡我，因為我早已明白。
Elsa: Anyway, I didn't need any warnings. Anything you could have said to me, Helen, I'd said to myself from the very beginning.
Defense mechanism，前不久親口說出的一個詞。
Elsa: Defense mechanism. It still hurts. I'm getting impatient for the time when I'll be able to laugh at it all.
愛已不容易了，但信任更難，愛一個人可能會受的傷很重，但若連信任也交付出去的話可能會受的傷勢必更重。關於一個父親給他的孩子上的第一堂business lesson是這齣劇第一個讓我impressed的段落。跳過一次傷過一次，你還要再跳嗎？
Elsa: Do you know what the really big word is, Helen? I had it all wrong. Like most people, I suppose I used to think it was "love." That's the big one all right, and it's quite an event when it comes along. But there's an even bigger one. Trust. And more dangerous. Because that's when you drop your defenses, lay yourself wide open, and if you've made a mistake, you're in big, big touble. And it hurts like hell.
愛情的本質是複雜的，另一個前不久親口說出的話。把信任收回來很容易，但是情感不是能說斷就斷的。
Elsa: I went on loving David long after I realized I coudn't trust him anymore. That is why life is just a bit complicated at the moment. A little of that love is still hanging around.
看到別人明明知道自己真正想要的是什麼卻因為有的沒的原因猶疑不定就會很生氣，不小心就會開始不太能體諒對方其他顧慮地破口大罵囧。
Elsa: You were going to ask him for it, not tell him you wanted it? And do you need more time to think about it? I thought you knew what you wanted?
看到自以為是的傢伙做著所謂「我們是為你好」的事就會怒從中來，真正對我好的是什麼明明就只有我自己知道。
Elsa: Who the hell do they think they are? Sitting around a table deciding what is going to happen to you!
社交的客套和氣圓滑要做，但是原則一定要堅定。
Elsa: Because you're going to say no, remember? Be as polite and civil as you like─we'll offer him tea and biscuits and discuss the weather and the evils of alcohol─but when the time comes, you're going to thank him for all his trouble and considration and then hand this back to him with a firm "No, thank you."
害怕人生的痛苦荒謬未知還有孤獨，在一個又一個別人的故事裡看到自己的影子，感受能力非常非常強。
Elsa: As I watched her walk away, measuring out the next eighty miles of her life in small steps, I wanted to scream...I screamed louder and longer than I have ever done in my life. I can't describe it, Helen. I hated her, I hated the baby, I hated you for dragging me all the way up here...and most of all I hated myself...and I still feel fucking lonely.
痛恨自己的無力，討厭動不動就哭泣。
Elsa: I wanted to punish us.
Helen: For waht? What have we done to deserve that?
Elsa: I've already told you. For being old, for being black, for being born...for being twenty-eight years old and trusting enough to jump. For our stupid helplessness...So what do you want me to do, Helen?
Helen: Stop screaming.
Elsa: And cry instead?
即便如此，從未放棄去愛人，永遠在找尋一個我深信當我跳下去會穩穩接住我的人。
Elsa: God, I love you! I love you so much it hurts.
Helen: What about trust?
Elsa: Open your arms and catch me! I'm going to jump!
