← Who got up first in the morning, just so that she could feel the cool air on her bare skin? 🔊✎
← And hold me. Hold me tighter than you've ever held me before. So that all your strength goes into me. 🔊✎
← I was dumb. I wasn't sure you really wanted me, and I did all that to be a bit more like the other girls, so that you'd feel that way.. 🔊✎
← But I came to you because I wanted you to have me, so that I would be your woman first. 🔊✎
← Have you killed! Take a look at yourself. You're too thin. Put on a bit of weight, so that you can give Haemon a nice, fat, healthy baby. I promise you, Thebes needs that more than it needs your death. 🔊✎
← You've heard the priests of Thebes doing the burial ceremony? You've seen those poor, tired church employees cutting short their gestures, gabbling the words, trying to get it over quickly enough so that they can fit in another stiff before they break for lunch? 🔊✎
← Why? So that I'll cry, so that I'll beg for mercy, so that I'll swear anything you want, and then try again as soon as the pain has gone? 🔊✎
← You're there, you're drinking in my words. And if you don't call your guards, it's so that you can hear me out to the end. 🔊✎
← What will it be, my happiness? What kind of happy woman is little Antigone going to become? What miserable things is she going to have to do, her as well, so that she can gnaw out her little morsel of happiness? Tell me, who's she going to lie to, who's she going to smile at, who's she going to sell herself to? Who's she going to let die while she looks the other way? 🔊✎