"Perhaps I only became aware of all this some time later."

"Nor do I remember how I greeted Frau Schmitz."

"I don’t remember what we talked about in the kitchen."

"Her face as it was then has been overlaid in my memory by the faces she had later. If I see her in my mind’s eye as s…"

"Years later it occurred to me that the reason I hadn’t been able to take my eyes off her was not just her body, but t…"

"I knew none of this—if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air."

"I don’t know why I did it. But today I can recognize that events back then were part of a lifelong pattern in which t…"

"Why does it make me so sad when I think back to that time? … Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsigh…"

"The memory that illuminates and fixes my first meetings with Hanna makes a single blur…I remember our meeting in thos…"

"I don’t remember what I told my parents."