← And Haemon? Your fiancé? Because she's engaged! She's engaged, and at four in the morning she gets up to meet someone else. 🔊✎
← Go back to your room now, do what I told you, and keep your mouth shut. I'll make sure no one else talks. 🔊✎
← Nothing else, I know. But at least I can do that. You have to do what you can. 🔊✎
← You think of course I should bury your brother, just for hygienic reasons if nothing else. But to make the animals I govern understand, the whole town has to stink of Polynices' decaying carcass for a month. 🔊✎
← But I'll tell you something else, something really horrible that only I know: Eteocles, that prince of virtue, wasn't a bit better than Polynices. The good son had also tried to have his dad assassinated, the loyal prince had also decided to sell Thebes to the highest bidder. 🔊✎
← Nothing else matters. And you were going to throw it away! 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← Well I want it all, now, the whole thing - or else I refuse! I don't want to be modest and say a little bit is enough if I've been a good girl. I want to be sure of everything today and I want it to be as wonderful as when I was small - or I want to die! 🔊✎
← I understand her now. Antigone was made to die. Maybe she didn't know it herself, but Polynices was just an excuse. If she'd had to change her mind this time, she'd have found something else. What was important for her was to say no and die. 🔊✎
← A good woman always talking about her garden, her preserves, her knitting, that knitting she's always doing for the poor. It's amazing how the poor always need knitting. You'd think they needed nothing else... 🔊✎