I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this

I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.