← And now you're just like your sister. Worse even! Who is he? Someone from the wrong side of the tracks, a boy you can't take home and tell your family: "Here he is, he's the one I love, I want to marry him." That's it, isn't it? Answer me, girl! 🔊✎
← And if some day a dubious messenger turns up from the far mountains to say that there are some questions about where I was born, I will just tell him to go home again, and I won't start checking up on your aunt and comparing dates. Little girl, kings have more important things to do than occupy themselves with their private lives. 🔊✎
← You saw your mother crying, you saw your father angry, you heard the doors slamming when they came home, and their nasty smiles in the corridors. They walked past you, full of worthless sarcasm, smelling of liquor.. 🔊✎
← Once, I hid behind a door, it was morning, we'd just got up and they were coming home. 🔊✎