← She's thinking that she will soon be Antigone, that she is suddenly going to burst forth from the slight, dark-haired girl that no one in the family takes seriously and rise up to face the whole world alone, face Creon, her uncle, who is the king. 🔊✎
← You need to get up earlier, nurse, if you want to see a world without colours. 🔊✎
← You know, I'd have protected him from the whole world. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← Can you imagine a world where the trees said no to the sap rising in them, where animals said no to their instincts of fighting and reproducing? 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← Oh, I'm begging you, father, I want to be able to look up to you, I still want to look up to you! I'm too alone and the world is too empty if I can't look up to you anymore. 🔊✎
← We're all alone, Haemon. The world is empty. And you've looked up to me too long. Look straight at me, this is what it means to be a man, to look your father straight in the face one day. 🔊✎