← The pale boy over there at the back, who's standing dreaming on his own with his back against the wall is the Messenger. 🔊✎
← The lighting on the stage has changed. It is now a pale, grey dawn in a sleeping house. ✎
← My dead brother is surrounded by an armed guard just as though he'd managed to make himself king. Go back to bed. You're absolutely pale. 🔊✎
← A convenient piece of innocence to help the party. A pale little boy who will spit at the firing squad. How useful to smear that innocent blood on my hands, a double win. 🔊✎
← It's strange. I've often imagined it, this dialogue with a pale young man who's tried to kill me, that I can't get to show any emotion but contempt. But I never thought it would be with you, and for something so stupid... 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← I understand you., I would have done the same when I was twenty. That's why I kept listening to your words. I saw at the other end of time a little Creon, thin and pale like you are, who also kept thinking of sacrificing himself... 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← I have lain them down to sleep next to each other, finally! They are washed now and rested. They just look a little pale, but so calm. Two lovers on the morning after their first night. It is over for them. 🔊✎