← A consuming fire. A consuming fire in their hearts. When I’m on my own, the flame goes out. 🔊✎
← For six months, I burned in her heart until there was nothing left to burn. 🔊✎
← Well, I can feel sorry for you. Look at me, we’re naked. Naked right down to the bones, I see all of you to the bottom of your heart. That ties us together: do you really think I want to hurt you? 🔊✎
← Oh please listen, I’ve just fallen out of their hearts like a little bird falls out of her nest. Pick me up, put me in your heart, you’ll see how nice I feel there. 🔊✎
← I don’t count? Oh, my poor little lost bird, don’t you know you’re already safe in my heart? 🔊✎
← But what does that mean, thousands of them? If there’s one single person who says with all her heart that I didn’t run away, that I couldn’t have run away, that I was brave and decent, then I … I’m sure I’ll be saved! 🔊✎
← There’ve been days when you looked into yourself and saw what was in your heart, and it almost paralysed you. And in the morning, all you could do was think normal thoughts, and you couldn’t understand the strange and terrible things you’d glimpsed the day before. 🔊✎