← Little Antigone just does whatever comes into her head. She's a silly girl, a stubborn girl, a bad girl, and then they put her in a corner or in a hole. 🔊✎
← You have to understand that you can't eat everything at once, or give all the money in your pocket to the beggar, or run, run like the wind until you fall down on the ground, and you have to drink when you're hot and take a bath when it's too early or too late but never when you actually want to. 🔊✎
← And there'll be the guards there with their idiotic expressions and their fat necks jammed into their stiff collars and their big ugly hands, looking at us like cows. And we'll feel we could scream, we could try to make them understand, but they'd just carry on like savages and do whatever they were told to do without knowing it it was good or bad... 🔊✎
← And above all, tragedy is calm, because you know there's no hope, no filthy hope; you're caught, in the end you're caught like a rat, with the whole sky that's fallen on you, and all you can do is scream, not groan or complain, but scream at the top of your lungs all the things you have to say, which you've never said and maybe didn't even know you had in you. It won't help: but you do it for yourself, to learn something. 🔊✎
← Those words that condemn you are so exciting, aren't they? You just lap them up when your name is Oedipus or Antigone. And then it's so simple to poke your eyes out and go out begging on the roads with your children. 🔊✎
← If I were just your ordinary standard issue tyrant, you would long ago have had your tongue cut out and your arms and legs stretched on the rack, or you'd just have been thrown in a hole. But you can see something in my eyes that's hesitating, you can see I'd rather talk than call my men. So you keep on needling me, attacking me as much as you can. 🔊✎
← Yes, my dear. The job requires it. You can discuss whether you should do the job or not do the job. But if you're going to do it, you need to do it like that. 🔊✎
← Do you think you've got time for these fancy thoughts, to know if you should say "yes" or "no", to ask yourself if you're paying too much, if you can still feel like a man afterwards? You grab the wheel, you face the mountain of water in front of you, you yell an order and you fire into the crowd, on the first man who moves forward. Into the crowd! It doesn't have a name. 🔊✎
← 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! 🔊✎
← You just have to accept it, Haemon. Everyone has a day, sad or happy, now or later, when he has to accept that he's a man. For you, that day is today. 🔊✎