← The old lady who's knitting next to the nurse who raised the two young girls is Eurydice, Creon's wife. 🔊✎
← You useless old thing, yes, you useless old thing, you were supposed to make sure my little one was a good girl. Always shouting, always doing guard dog duty, telling them to wear their woolens so they don't catch cold and whisking eggs so they'd grow up strong, but at four in the morning you're asleep on the job, you useless old thing, you're the one who never needs sleep but you're asleep, and you let her escape, and when you get there her bed is cold! 🔊✎
← You're making fun of me then? You know, I'm too old for this kind of thing. 🔊✎
← Look, I've been thinking about it all night. I'm older than you. I think more than you do. 🔊✎
← Understand. You always have to understand. I don't want to understand. I'll understand when I'm old. 🔊✎
← If I ever get to be old. Not now. 🔊✎
← So listen. Yes, you are Antigone, yes, you are the daughter of Oedipus, but you are twenty years old, and not very long ago this would have been sorted out with a couple of smacks and going to bed without your dinner. 🔊✎
← And as soon as he was with the Argives, the assassination attempts started against your father, against an old man who hadn't decided to die and hand over his kingdom. One attempt after another, and when we caught one of the hitmen they always ended up saying they'd been paid by him. Though not just by him, I might add. 🔊✎
← You'll learn, you as well, too late, life is a book you love, it's a child playing at your feet, it's a tool that sits comfortably in your hand, it's a bench in front of your house where you rest in the evening. You'll despise me again, but discovering that, you'll see, is the silver lining of getting old; life is perhaps all the same just happiness. 🔊✎