The Well: "One night in August she stayed awake, and the little paper moon, reading Romance, listening and listening to Homer, her only record on her first turntable. Then she took the record, put it in a plastic bag and hid it under the base of the refrigerator. She looked at her books and didn't know where to store them. Her mother was sleeping in the next room. In the early morning, the doorbell rang. She stuck her head out of the window, saw them. Before they climbed the marble staircase and then the spiral metal staircase of the roof, she managed to tell her mother not to be scared, they are coming to arrest me, but it is important not to be scared, please..."

Some People: "The moon had risen high and the lamp could have been sitting on the crushed tin, her lament could be heard clearly, and you would think it was the crying of Antonakaina who also became a lamp, just like in that crazy mother with her moonlit only daughter and her nine sons..."

Athopetou: "In every language, in every dialect, they call me differently, and in every city and every village they have their own version of me, I was the rejected one in the ashes, until they made me the famous velvet fairy tale, and the time came when I don't want to be the lucky one of the fairy tale. I want to be a hiker..."