“It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die”
“But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.”
“We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.”
“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forthmercilessly. And she wanted to harbour her modicum of twinkling life.”
“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”
“She ... is everything to me. Everything. Healthy or traumatized, she’s all I want, and she’s mine.”