← Let me hold your hand like I did when you stayed next to my bed. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← Your arms that are holding me aren't lying? Your strong hands on my back aren't lying to me, and not your smell, and not your warmth, and not that feeling I have when I put my head on your shoulder that I'm here, I'm safe? 🔊✎
← Tell them to take their dirty hands off me, they're hurting me. 🔊✎
← What she was doing, boss? That's why we're bringing her in to you. She was scooping up the dirt with her hands. Trying to cover him up again. 🔊✎
← I light up, I say thank you, I turn around and there she is scraping away with her bare hands. In the middle of the day! Guess she must have thought we wouldn't notice her. 🔊✎
← If I had been a servant doing the dishes when I heard the edict being read, I would have wiped my greasy hands and I would have gone out in my apron to bury my brother. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← (He has put his head in his hands. You feel he's about to give up). ✎
← You needed to go there this morning, on your hands and knees, in the dark. You needed to scrape up the dirt with your fingernails while they were right next to you and then have them grab you like you were a common thief! 🔊✎