← I get up when it's still dark, I go to your room to see if you've kicked off the covers again, and I find you're not in your bed! 🔊✎
← I'm dark and skinny. Ismene is pink and golden like a fruit. 🔊✎
← Death is there, and treason and despair, all ready to use, and the outbursts, and the storms, and the silences, all the silences: the silence when the headsman raises his axe at the end, the silence at the beginning when the two lovers are naked in front of each other for the first time in the dark bedroom, without daring to move, the silence when the crowd's screams burst out around the conqueror and it's like a film where the sound has been cut, all those open mouths with nothing coming out, all that commotion which is just a picture, and the conqueror, who has already been conquered, alone in the middle of his silence... 🔊✎
← You needed to go there this morning, on your hands and knees, in the dark. You needed to scrape up the dirt with your fingernails while they were right next to you and then have them grab you like you were a common thief! 🔊✎