← 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. 🔊✎
← She is going to knit through the whole tragedy until her turn comes to get up and die. 🔊✎
← You've thought about it carefully, have you? You think that the whole town screaming at you, you think that pain and being scared of dying is enough? 🔊✎
← Oh! my darling, I was so stupid! A whole evening wasted. A whole beautiful evening. 🔊✎
← You know, I'd have protected him from the whole world. 🔊✎
← Boss, we did everything we was supposed to! Durand, he sat down for half an hour cause his feet hurt, but me boss, I was up the whole time. The first class will tell you. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← In your family, it's kind of embarrassing to be just human. You need to get together with fate and death. You need to kill your father and sleep with your mother and then hear the whole thing afterwards, word by word. 🔊✎
← 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! 🔊✎
← Haemon does not hear him. And then suddenly he stands up, his eyes black, and he has never looked so much like the little boy he once was. He stares at his father without saying a word, for a whole minute, and then suddenly, he spits in his face and draws his sword. Creon jumps back out of reach. 🔊✎