“Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.”

“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met”

“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although frightening, this was a great adventure to me as a child, for in the shelter I played with the other children and we felt safe there as we were surrounded by grown-ups; although now the grown-ups were more worried than they had been in the past. There were greater feelings of anxiety and fear in the older people, which we children also felt, and it unsettled us all.”

“The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.”

“Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.”

“Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry?Have they?”