Lost and Found Quotes

“DESIRE: Trust me, if you reject love long enough you’ll forget how to accept it.”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play

“UNREQUITED LOVE: Look, you see me, a lonely girl having a drink. What do you do?
LOST: Avoid eye contact at all costs?
UNREQUITED LOVE: Oh come on, don’t you ever randomly flirt and find yourself falling in love with attractive young women?
LOST: I’ve forgotten how.
UNREQUITED LOVE: How peculiar.
LOST: (Struggles, trying to find the right words.) No…I mean I did once, but I’ve forgotten most things about love I guess. It just comes with the territory of losing your heart.
UNREQUITED LOVE: Wait. (Beat.) You lost your heart?
LOST: Yeah um...I lost my heart about a year ago. Filed a police report and everything, but they haven’t had any luck finding it.
UNREQUITED LOVE: But without a heart, how can you-
LOST: Love? I can’t.
UNREQUITED LOVE: Can you remember what love feels like?
LOST: (Shrugs.) Vaguely, but for the most part I don’t remember much about it. Like when couples hold hands, I don’t understand why they do that.
UNREQUITED LOVE: Must make for some lonely nights.”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play

“UNREQUITED LOVE: Some days my body feels empty and I feel like an idiot. To care for someone with every inch of your soul, and then find out they couldn’t care less about you... It’s like being slowly stabbed in the chest by someone who enjoys murdering the innocent.
LOST: But you always seem so happy.
UNREQUITED LOVE: There’s only so much you can’t feel.”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play

“UNREQUITED LOVE: Metaphorical symbols weigh more than the average human being.”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play

“GRIEF: How can you let someone go when you’ve already spent so much of your life with them? It just doesn’t feel natural.
DEPENDENCE: I don’t know. I guess you just do it.”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play

“HEARTACHE: The doctors told me in so many medical terms that the shock had cracked my heart vertically down the middle. That there was nothing they could do. That any more shock could cause my heart to break in half. I didn’t want to believe them so for the past year...I’ve seen more doctors than I can remember. I’ve tried all kinds of medications whose names I can’t even pronounce. I take so many pills I could run a working pharmacy out of my medicine cabinet right now. (Beat.) But nothing is working. It’s like my body doesn’t know how to not be sick. I don’t even know if I can heal, I’ve forgotten what it feels like to be healthy, to feel normal.
DESIRE: Because no one’s found the cure for a broken heart yet...”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play

“SILENCED: I don’t trust someone that doesn’t drink.
GUARDED: And I don’t trust anyone who does.
SILENCED: Touché́. (Takes a huge sip of her beer.)”
― Alyssa Ahle, Lost and Found: a stage play