← It's true, it was still night. And no one in the country except me was thinking it was morning. 🔊✎
← I'm not a bad girl. I don't have any other lover except Haemon, my fiancé, I promise. If you like, I can even promise I'll never have any other lover. 🔊✎
← Nothing, nurse. I'm just a bit little for all this. But no one except you needs to know. 🔊✎
← Nothing, boss. Nothing except one footstep lighter than a bird. 🔊✎
← There's a different guard now watching over Polynices' body, and even if you manage to cover him up again, you know perfectly well they will just uncover him. What will you achieve except breaking your fingernails and getting caught? 🔊✎
← The story of Eteocles and Polynices, your brothers. You think you know it, but you don't. No one in Thebes knows it except me. But I think, this morning, that you also have the right to find out. 🔊✎
← 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... 🔊✎