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"Before turning back from them, she asks herself: do you want to go on? To push forwards? Is it worth it?
There was a time when she had answered, trembling, no. Now she walks, holding any answer in reserve."

“Những ngày cô đang sống ở thành phố này đây, là đêm trắng hay đêm đen? Nỗi đau cũ chưa nguôi mà thống khổ mới vẫn chưa tới”

“Người áp tay lên trán đo nhiệt độ và đắp chăn cho cô hằng đêm cũng chính là người sẽ đuổi cô ra ngoài trời lạnh giá”

"There are certain memories which remain inviolate to the ravages of time. And to those of suffering. It is not true that everything is coloured by time and suffering. It is not true that they bring everything to ruin"

'Why do old memories constantly drift to the surface, here in this unfamiliar city? When I go out into the streets, the scraps of conversation which pull into focus when the speaker brushes past me, the words stamped on street and shop signs, are almost all incomprehensible. At times my body feels like a prison, a solid, shifting island threading through the crowd." pianto in treno