← She's staring straight ahead. She's thinking. 🔊✎
← She's thinking that she will soon be Antigone, that she is suddenly going to burst forth from the slight, dark-haired girl that no one in the family takes seriously and rise up to face the whole world alone, face Creon, her uncle, who is the king. 🔊✎
← Another thing that she is thinking is this: she is going to die. Antigone is young. She would much rather live than die. 🔊✎
← Gardens are beautiful when they aren't thinking about people yet. 🔊✎
← It's true, it was still night. And no one in the country except me was thinking it was morning. 🔊✎
← Look, I've been thinking about it all night. I'm older than you. I think more than you do. 🔊✎
← Who used to cry sometimes, when she was just a little girl, because she couldn't stop thinking there were so many animals in the fields, so many blades of grass that she would never have time to see all of them? 🔊✎
← That's how I feel. And I wanted to say to you I would have been so proud to be your woman, really be your woman that you could reach out and touch when you sat down in the evening, without even thinking, the way you'd touch something that belonged to you. 🔊✎
← I understand you., I would have done the same when I was twenty. That's why I kept listening to your words. I saw at the other end of time a little Creon, thin and pale like you are, who also kept thinking of sacrificing himself... 🔊✎
← Get married soon, Antigone, be happy. Life isn't what you think. It's like water which young people let run through their fingers, without thinking. Quick, close your hands, close your hands. Keep it there. 🔊✎