← And then one night, a ball night when he had danced with no one but Ismene, a night when Ismene had been dazzling in her new gown, he had gone over to find Antigone, who was dreaming in a corner like she is now, her arms around her knees, and he had asked her to be his wife. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← 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 get up to see if she's kicked off the covers. I find her bed cold and no one there. 🔊✎
← You're quite sure that at the ball when you came to find me in my corner, you didn't find the wrong girl? You're sure you've never regretted it, not thought even once, right deep down, that you should have asked Ismene? 🔊✎
← Who has dared? Who has been foolish enough to defy my law? Did you find any traces? 🔊✎
← It's just that I needed to make one of them into a hero. So I gave orders to find their bodies in the middle of all the others. 🔊✎
← They found them in each other's arms, I guess for the first time in their lives. They'd stabbed each other at the same time, and then the whole Argive cavalry had ridden over them. They'd been mashed into pulp, unrecognisable. 🔊✎
← You all disgust me with your happiness! With your life that you have to love, whatever it costs. Yes, like a dog, like those dogs that lick everything they find. And that little chance that it'll all work out, as long as you don't ask for too much. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎