← How many times have I told myself: "Dear God, the little one, she's not enough of a flirt! Always the same dress and she doesn't even comb her hair. The boys won't see anyone but Ismene with her curls and her ribbons and they'll leave me to look after the other one. 🔊✎
← You useless old thing, yes, you useless old thing, you were supposed to make sure my little one was a good girl. Always shouting, always doing guard dog duty, telling them to wear their woolens so they don't catch cold and whisking eggs so they'd grow up strong, but at four in the morning you're asleep on the job, you useless old thing, you're the one who never needs sleep but you're asleep, and you let her escape, and when you get there her bed is cold! 🔊✎
← You were always my favourite, even though you're so mean. Your sister was nicer, but I thought you were the one who really loved me. 🔊✎
← Understand. You always have to understand. I don't want to understand. I'll understand when I'm old. 🔊✎
← For nothing, nurse. And now you're here. I'm holding that good rough hand of yours that always puts everything right, I know it does. 🔊✎
← And then, if she was too sad, if she always looked like she was waiting, her nose under the door like she is when I've gone out, maybe it would best to have her put down, painlessly put down. 🔊✎
← Polynices is dead and he didn't love you. He was always a stranger to us, a bad brother. 🔊✎
← I just do what I'm told. My commanding officers, they always say, "With Jonas, you can relax." 🔊✎
← I've got my feet on the ground, my hands in my pockets, and since I happen to be king, I'm not as ambitious as your father, I just want to make the world a bit less crazy, if I can do that. It's not exactly an adventure, it's just a job. And like all jobs, it's not always fun. 🔊✎