The Story of Antigone Quotes

“And they all died happily ever after.

A very happy ending," the littlest one said.”
― Ali Smith, The Story of Antigone

“The still-alives. They were all crazy.”
― Ali Smith, The Story of Antigone

“Now what was left of the ships of the retreating army would be disappearing over the thin line where the sea met the sky; now the smoke of last night's fires was clearing where the still-alive humans below had buried and burnt their dead. They were mostly the female kind. The female kind did the sorting-out afterwards. They worked their way through the rubble and the debris. Hunched and wingless, they wheeled their broken-yoked handcarts along what was left of the roads. It was nothing new. The crow had seen it all before.”
― Ali Smith, The Story of Antigone

“L’amore se ne infischia del soldo, l’amore è più caldo del caldo. Che sia vinta la guerra o sia persa, è l’amore che il mondo attraversa. L’amore non fa rima né ha ragioni, l’amore rende pazzo chi lo ha. L’amore sopravvive alle stagioni […]. L’amore vince i giochi, ogni contesa, che scoppi sulla terra o dentro al mare. Nessuna risorsa è meglio spesa, di quelle bruciate per amare.”
― Ali Smith, La storia di Antigone raccontata da Ali Smith