← You went out. I was at the back door, you left it ajar. 🔊✎
← You've thought about it carefully, have you? You think that the whole town screaming at you, you think that pain and being scared of dying is enough? 🔊✎
← So I'm asking you, please don't yell at her. 🔊✎
← Promise you won't even yell at her then. I'm asking you, please nurse, please. 🔊✎
← You're quite sure that at the ball when you came to find me in my corner, you didn't find the wrong girl? You're sure you've never regretted it, not thought even once, right deep down, that you should have asked Ismene? 🔊✎
← all you need is a little nudge to set it going, anything will do, a glance at a girl you pass in the street who's lifting up her arms as you go by her, a feeling when you wake up in the morning that people aren't really treating you right, one question too many that you ask yourself late at night... 🔊✎
← And above all, tragedy is calm, because you know there's no hope, no filthy hope; you're caught, in the end you're caught like a rat, with the whole sky that's fallen on you, and all you can do is scream, not groan or complain, but scream at the top of your lungs all the things you have to say, which you've never said and maybe didn't even know you had in you. It won't help: but you do it for yourself, to learn something. 🔊✎
← If they do a big show at the barracks, like when they hand out the medals, the wives'll be there too and the kids. So then we go to the Twisted Wrist. 🔊✎
← And you've never thought to yourself that if that was someone you loved lying there in the box, you'd want to start screaming? Scream at them to shut up and go away? 🔊✎
← I understand you., I would have done the same when I was twenty. That's why I kept listening to your words. I saw at the other end of time a little Creon, thin and pale like you are, who also kept thinking of sacrificing himself... 🔊✎