When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.