"How is it that in childhood everything new that caught my interest had an aura of the uncanny, since according to all the authorities the uncanny is not some new thing but a thing known returning in a different form ... so many unanswerables, this the least of them." p. 8

"The past beats inside me like a second heart." p. 9

"Henceforth I would have to address things as they are, not as I might imagine them, for this was a new version of reality." p. 15.

"... at what moment, of all our moments, is life not utterly, utterly changed, until the final, most momentous change of all?" p. 25

"There are moments when the past has a force so strong that it seems one might be annihilated by it." p. 35

"... last night in a dream, it has just come back to me, I was trying to write my will on a...