"But even without looking back, it seems to me, I should have seen something when leaving"
"You may say it’s his own fault.
Ask him if it’s his own fault"
"I felt weak.
Perhaps I was."
"It was inevitable, under these conditions, that the peace should be disturbed from time to time."
"What should I crawl with in the future?"
"What does it amount to, the shelter of the land, at such a time"
"I would have liked him to draw me close with a gesture of protective love, but his mind was on other things."
"The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on."