HANNAH (speaking to Harper): At first it can be very difficult to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point...where the disappointment doesn't hurt so much, and then it gets actually easy to live with. Quite easy. Which is in its own way a disappointment. But. There.
Act III; Scene I
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HARPER: [....] Was it a hard thing crossing the prairies?
MORMON MOTHER: You ain't stupid. So don't ask stupid. Ask something for real.
HARPER (a beat, then): In your experience of the world. How do people change?
MORMON MOTHER: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.
God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges as filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
HARPER: And then get up. And walk around.
MORMON MOTHER: Just mangled guts pretending.
HARPER: That's how people change.
ACT III; Scene VI
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