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"He starts to hate her as well, and he finds a sort of enjoyment in that too.
He finds a sort of enjoyment in hurting her, emotionally and sometimes even physically. ‘You’re hurting me,’ she says as he squeezes her neck, and he understands that he was inflicting the pain on her deliberately and for his own pleasure, or at least for some form of satisfaction that it gave him."

"When her husband is away she sometimes spends the night in his flat at the top of the house. He never spends the night in her part of the house."

"On one such occasion he’s watching two people down there, a man and a woman, talking to each other and laughing about something, and it’s only after a few seconds that he sees that it’s actually them, Mr and Mrs Nyman. He finds it slightly shocking that he didn’t notice that immediately."

"He realises that the things that are so important to him – the things that happened, and that he saw there, the things that left him feeling that nothing would ever be the same again – they just aren’t important here.
Those things have no reality here.
That’s what it feels like. So it makes you feel slightly insane or something, to have those things inside you, when they seem to have no reality here."
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"When she leaves he thinks about what they did. He tries to kind of hold onto the reality of it. As soon as she isn’t there it seems slightly unreal."