Pronoun (NHB Modern Plays)

Tolerance is the emptiest word in the dictionary.
Tolerate is what you do when someone’s playing their music loudly on the bus.
Tolerate is what you do when someone’s texting next to you in the cinema.
I don’t want to be tolerated.
I want to be admired.
I want to be envied.
I want to be… loved.

But don’t tolerate me.
Because tolerance means sweet fuck-all.

don’t want to be tolerated.
I want to be admired.
I want to be envied.
I want to be… loved.
Love me.
And if that’s too much to ask. Then hate me.

KYLE. Amy’ll be back any minute, and [if] she finds you in her room she’ll castrate you with her bare teeth. Trust me, I’ve got the teethmarks. It still hurts when I pee. (Exits.)