NESTOR: So many stories! A vaudeville of doomed love, shameless desire, dreams and longing. Someone always laughs, someone always cries, someone always dies.
Act I, Scene 2, p. 17

MALLAT: ... The Philippines was totally unexpected. God's surprise, if you will. The Spaniards never fully appreciated this melancholy paradise, but I did. Such mystifying, hallucinogenic beauty.
Act I, Scene 2, p. 19

PUCHA: Naku! Did you hear about our new Miss Philippines? Skandulosa, talaga! You know Daisy? She's Senator Avila's daughter. They say she's having sex with this NPA big shot, daw!
Act I, Scene 9, p. 33

PERLITA: ... You know where the term "dogeater" came from? The Americans, of course. Oh, they were quite crude and creative with us, weren't they, Joey?
Act I, Scene 10, pp. 40-41

JOEY: ... You foreigners are all the same. Think I'm stupid because I'm poor ... and pretty. Think you know everything.
Act I, Scene 14, p. 56

RIO: So. Did the...