← Nurse stronger than fever, nurse stronger than nightmares, stronger than the shadow of the wardrobe that stares at you from the wall and keeps changing, stronger than the thousand silent insects that keep gnawing away all night long, stronger than the night itself with its mad song you can't hear; nurse, stronger than death. 🔊✎
← If my brother had returned, exhausted after a long hunt, I would have taken off his boots, I would have got him something to eat, I would have made his bed... 🔊✎
← And then I'm sure you admired their first cigarettes, their first long trousers; and then they started going out at night, and they smelled like men, and they no longer looked at you at all. 🔊✎
← There is a long silence, they don't move, they don't look at each other, then Antigone says softly: ✎
← Don't stay alone too long. Go see Haemon, this morning. Get married soon. 🔊✎
← We're all alone, Haemon. The world is empty. And you've looked up to me too long. Look straight at me, this is what it means to be a man, to look your father straight in the face one day. 🔊✎