← It's true, it was still night. And no one in the country except me was thinking it was morning. 🔊✎
← That's what she'll tell me, your mother, when I go up there to meet her, and I'll be so ashamed, so ashamed I'll want to die if I wasn't dead already, and all I'll be able to do is hang my head and say, "yes Ma'am Jocasta, it's true." 🔊✎
← That is not true. If you had been a servant, you would have known very well that you would die, and you would have stayed at home and cried for your brother there. 🔊✎
← You'll see, it will become a simple, hard little thing that you can nibble on as you sit in the sun. They'll tell you the opposite because they need your strength and swiftness. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me either when I give my next speech in front of Eteocles' tomb. It won't be true. Nothing is true except the things you don't say... 🔊✎
← They'll say it's not true. That I'm just saving her because she's going to marry my son. I can't do it. 🔊✎
← Father, it's not true! It's not you, it's not today! We're not both of us in front of that wall where you can only say yes. You are still strong, like you were when I was little. 🔊✎
← And there you are. Without little Antigone, it's true, they would all have been fine. 🔊✎