“they have to remove part of her leg.""which part, upper or lower?”

“Il avait réussi à atteindre la part de moi qui restait attachée à lui. Je n,ai pas deviné, imaginé qu'il allait insister, revenir, jusqu'à ce que je lui donne la preuve hors de tout doute, que cette part était morte. Jusqu'à ce que, forcément, j'aies réussi à la tuer en moi-même.”

“Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.”

“All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own. ”

“She wanted Kristen to do all the horrible things she said she would do to her and to have her physical pain from Kristen’s hate replace her mental pain from her father’s love. Pain that comes from the outside was much easier to endure. The wounds heal, the scars go away, and it’s over. She could move on. She would live on and forget her pain. The wounds caused by her father, that festered inside Simone’s heart, mind, and blood would never heal. She would never be able to just move on and forget the scars.”

“He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”

“Its upper part is not bright, and its lower part is not obscure.”