← They're not such bad guys. They have wives and children and their own little problems, just like everyone, but when the moment comes they will find it easy to grab hold of the person they're told to arrest. 🔊✎
← A child! They must have thought that would be more touching. 🔊✎
← I can see him, their child, with his killer's face and the little spade neatly wrapped in paper under his coat. 🔊✎
← That is, if they didn't train up a real child, teach him what to say... 🔊✎
← Those words that condemn you are so exciting, aren't they? You just lap them up when your name is Oedipus or Antigone. And then it's so simple to poke your eyes out and go out begging on the roads with your children. 🔊✎
← You'll learn, you as well, too late, life is a book you love, it's a child playing at your feet, it's a tool that sits comfortably in your hand, it's a bench in front of your house where you rest in the evening. You'll despise me again, but discovering that, you'll see, is the silver lining of getting old; life is perhaps all the same just happiness. 🔊✎
← Antigone is at the far end of the tomb. She has hanged herself with her belt of blue and green and red cords, which looks like a child's necklace on her, and Haemon, kneeling, holds her in his arms and groans, his face buried in her gown. They move away another block and Creon can finally enter. You see his white hair in the shadows in the depths of the cave. He tries to raise up Haemon, he begs him. 🔊✎