“And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.”

“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.”

“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”

“There is a big difference between having your heart broken and being the one responsible for a broken heart. I was twelve years old and had already experienced both.”

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

“And so I make a pact with the devil, or in this case, my mommy.”