Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

The hourglass runs low.