← But how am I going to be able to stand myself? Try to understand, make an effort. I like to give people a hard time, it’s the way I am … I even like to give myself a hard time. 🔊✎
← I can’t stand the idea that they’re waiting for me to do something. It makes me want to do the opposite. 🔊✎
← I can’t stand it. And you two are going to make something happen to me. 🔊✎
← Pause. They are all standing up, facing each other. ✎
← I’d put my fingers in my ears. Gomez was talking, standing up there between the tables, all the guys at the paper were listening to him. In their shirtsleeves. 🔊✎
← (She stands up straight and looks at them, still with her back to the door. In a dry, provocative voice:) ✎
← I can’t stand you, I can’t take any more. 🔊✎
← I tell you, they’ve planned everything. They knew I’d be standing in front of this mantelpiece, pressing my hand against this bronze, with all these eyes staring at me. All these eyes eating me up alive … 🔊✎