We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.

If I have been able to hold out till now, it is because each blow, which seemed intolerable at the time, was followed by a second which was worse, then a third…

Years and years to waken from that sleep in which the others loll; then years and years to scape that awakening...

I feel I am free but I know I am not.