← She's thinking that she will soon be Antigone, that she is suddenly going to burst forth from the slight, dark-haired girl that no one in the family takes seriously and rise up to face the whole world alone, face Creon, her uncle, who is the king. 🔊✎
← And now you're just like your sister. Worse even! Who is he? Someone from the wrong side of the tracks, a boy you can't take home and tell your family: "Here he is, he's the one I love, I want to marry him." That's it, isn't it? Answer me, girl! 🔊✎
← But tragedy is peaceful. It all stays in the family, in the end everyone is innocent. It's not a question of who kills and who gets killed, it's just a matter of how to share out the parts. 🔊✎
← You just thought that you were of the royal family, my niece and the fiancée of my son, and that when it came down to it I wouldn't dare to have you killed. 🔊✎
← In your family, it's kind of embarrassing to be just human. You need to get together with fate and death. You need to kill your father and sleep with your mother and then hear the whole thing afterwards, word by word. 🔊✎
← I am your uncle, we both know that, but we're not very nice to each other in this family. 🔊✎
← So about salary: you get the ordinary guard salary, same as the special detail, and then for six months, to make sure you don't lose out, supplement to bring you up to sergeant's salary. But if you're a guard, you get other stuff. Free lodging, heating, family allowance. 🔊✎