← No nurse. Please stop. You'll be able to look my mother in the eye when you go to meet her. 🔊✎
← But it gets towards noon, sun's beating down, and suddenly there's no wind so you really notice the smell. I've got my eyes trained on it but the air's shaking like jelly with the heat, you can't see a thing. I go over to the other guy and ask if he's got a smoke. 🔊✎
← The pride of Oedipus. You are the pride of Oedipus. Yes, now that I can see it deep in your eyes, I believe you. 🔊✎
← Those words that condemn you are so exciting, aren't they? You just lap them up when your name is Oedipus or Antigone. And then it's so simple to poke your eyes out and go out begging on the roads with your children. 🔊✎
← If I were just your ordinary standard issue tyrant, you would long ago have had your tongue cut out and your arms and legs stretched on the rack, or you'd just have been thrown in a hole. But you can see something in my eyes that's hesitating, you can see I'd rather talk than call my men. So you keep on needling me, attacking me as much as you can. 🔊✎
← Polynices saw me, he was so pale, but his eyes were flashing and he was so handsome in his tux! He said, "Hey, is that you there?" And he gave me a big paper flower that he'd brought back from the night. 🔊✎
← Why do you want me to be quiet? Because you know I'm right? You think I can't see in your eyes that I know that? You know I'm right, but you'll never admit it, because you're clinging on to your happiness like a dog with a bone. 🔊✎
← He just had to close his eyes to stop seeing you. 🔊✎
← And here you are in front of me with those tears in your eyes and your heart hurting in your chest, my little boy, for the last time... 🔊✎
← Haemon does not hear him. And then suddenly he stands up, his eyes black, and he has never looked so much like the little boy he once was. He stares at his father without saying a word, for a whole minute, and then suddenly, he spits in his face and draws his sword. Creon jumps back out of reach. 🔊✎