Olga Núñez Miret

His eyes, green with yellow sparks, and with elongated pupils like a cat__, made his grandmother gasp and say: __esus! He has the devil__ eyes!

Adelina knew perfectly well who the father was, but she worked hard to forget it, and by the end of her life she would insist that Jesús was her child and hers only.

Matthews asked:__ow intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?___ntimate?_ Phil still couldn__ grasp what they were asking.__y colleague is asking if you__ ever had sex with Dr. Miller before that evening._ Jones added curtly. ____e never_We__e never_We__e friends. We__ never had sex before that evening, and we didn__ have sex that evening either.___ow do you explain your semen in her sheets then, Mr. Marshall?

Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn__ it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I__e ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.

) __o you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?___t__ difficult to explain. It isn__ a voice like anything I__e ever heard before. It isn__ a man or a woman, it__ God.___ow do you know?___ecause the voice says so. And I believe it.___oes it talk to you or does it talk about you or others?___t talks to me.___oes it call your name?___es_It says something like: __ain, listen. There__ something I want you to tell the others. Tell them they must love themselves. Tell them they are beautiful.____ho are the others?___lack people.___ou mean God is talking to the black people through you.___ mean God is black.

What do you think of Cain__ affirmations?___e never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is convinced that God is talking to him.___o you believe he is a saint?___od only knows, and never better said. He might be, but again, I have my own taste on the matter. I__ not keen on perfection, especially when it__ dressed up like hardness. I prefer the cracked plate, the slightly blunt spear___he imperfect human being.___es. The gloriously imperfect human being.

Leave him with his God. I__ sure He__ as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don__ want to know about Cain__ God. If he is anything to be guided by, I__ rather be an atheist, thank you.

You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.__ary__ eyes darkened and she looked away.__ot quite as much as I hoped for. At times the loneliness and the unanswered questions can get overwhelming, like very loud voices echoing inside my head, just asking __hy_ __ho_ and making me think about my wasted life.

It___The only way I can get on with my life is by forgetting what went on before. Dave used to tell me that I didn__ have control over what the bastard of my father did to me, and that he__ been punished for it, and I might as well concentrate on the rest of my life, because over that_I had some control and I could decide what to do. I could change it over; I could become anything I wanted if I just tried hard enough.

I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don__ give me all that about transference, and counter-transference and all that. I know what I feel. And it has nothing to do with all that. And you also feel for me. And if you don__ know that, then maybe it__ you who needs to have therapy to gain a better knowledge of yourself.

A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: __ijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.____ranslated means___ou told a half-truth. They__l say you lie twice when you tell the other half.