← Do you think if you got up like that every morning, nurse, it would be as lovely to be the first girl outdoors? 🔊✎
← You should sleep. You won't be as beautiful tomorrow. 🔊✎
← You love me really? You love me as a woman? 🔊✎
← Yes, Antigone, I love you as a woman. 🔊✎
← And when she sees me running towards her, do you think she stopped, do you think she tried to escape? Nope. She just carries on as quick she can, like she didn't even see me coming. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← I suppose you think it's funny all the same, to be able to disrespect a king who's listening to you, a man who has the power to do anything and I promise you has seen plenty of other people killed, some of them just as cute as you, and who's still taking all this trouble to try and stop you from dying? 🔊✎
← First of all, I'm not tender-hearted but I'm kind of fussy: I like things to be clean and neat. You think this doesn't disgust me as much as you, this piece of stinking meat we've left out in the sun? In the evening, when we get the sea breeze, you can smell it even in the palace. It turns my stomach. But all the same, I don't close the window. 🔊✎
← You'll see, it will become a simple, hard little thing that you can nibble on as you sit in the sun. They'll tell you the opposite because they need your strength and swiftness. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me either when I give my next speech in front of Eteocles' tomb. It won't be true. Nothing is true except the things you don't say... 🔊✎
← Well I want it all, now, the whole thing - or else I refuse! I don't want to be modest and say a little bit is enough if I've been a good girl. I want to be sure of everything today and I want it to be as wonderful as when I was small - or I want to die! 🔊✎