← If you keep quiet, if you give up this crazy idea, I have a chance to save you, but it'll be gone five minutes from now. Do you understand that? 🔊✎
← But if he has to keep paying interest to keep your happiness and your life, if Haemon no longer becomes pale when I become pale, if he no longer thinks I'm dead when I'm five minutes late, if he no longer feels alone in the world and hates me when I laugh and he doesn't know why, if he turns into Mr Haemon and learns to say "yes" like everyone else, then no, I don't love Haemon anymore. 🔊✎
← When you've turned round, when you've walked through that door a minute from now, it'll be over. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎