← I made a huge noise, walking down the road all on my own, and I was embarrassed because I know they weren't waiting for me. 🔊✎
← 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? 🔊✎
← I swear it, Haemon. I swear it on the head of the little boy we would have had in our dreams, us two, the only little boy I'll ever have. 🔊✎
← Did you meet anyone on the way? 🔊✎
← You are wrong. On the contrary, I was certain you would have me killed. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← I can still say "no" to everything I don't like, and I can decide on my own. And you, with your crown and your guards and all the rest of it, all you can do is kill me, because you have said "yes". 🔊✎
← 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... 🔊✎
← 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! 🔊✎