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"The sheltering tent had let in the night, as close as if she'd been sleeping on the open ground … And immediately she started thinking about what it would be like to get scared. “Oh, dear God, don't let them make fun of me if I do get scared!"”

"I can't describe things any more. I can't find the words, or maybe it's just that I'm not trying hard enough ... And unless I tell it because I want to, it's as if it never happened; it gets closed off and then it's lost."

"An island can be dreadful for someone from outside … Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.”