Character: Lillian Dunkerque

What scammers we are! In fact, a person is truly happy only when he pays the least attention to time and when he is not driven by fear. And yet, even if fear drives you, you can laugh. What else is there to do?

“Not so bad if they think about it, darling. So they want you to stay.

He seeks to tie me to himself and lock me up, and proudly calls it marriage, care, love. He doesn’t want to understand that the feelings that he is proud of repulse me.

And die, Lillian thought.

He doesn't understand me. He does not know that by any means I would like to snatch from death those few days that in reality I am no longer destined to live. But I will never become a grumbling octogenitive old woman and I will not suffer the fate of an aging woman who no longer wants to see her lover and from whom he recoils in fright, having met her many years later. In the memory of my beloved, I will remain eternally young; I will be stronger than all the other women who will live longer and become older than me.

“More than anywhere else, signora. Unless, of course, you were born here.

He tied me to himself by the fact that, being with me, he does not ask about anything.

Tonight is Oberon's night. Everything here is enchanted: this bright light, these blue shadows and life itself, which seems both real and ghostly at the same time. Footsteps are not heard at all, everyone glides silently to the music. How passionately I dreamed of such a holiday, sitting in a snow-covered sanatorium with a temperature leaf over the bed and listening to music from Naples or Paris. On such a night by the sea, when the moon is shining and every breath of the breeze brings the scent of mimosas and flowering orange trees, it is as if one cannot die on such a night. People converge and, after being together for a second, get lost in the crowd to find themselves in someone's arms again. Before you more and more new faces, but the hands remain the same.

- I want to own everything, which means not to own anything.

- I really like you. Why don't I ever call you by name?
- No one calls me by name.
- Then I should be even more so called.

- Then talk about it all the time. I need it like water and wine.

- Why do you live on the left bank? For romantic reasons?
- Randomly. That's the best motivation I know.

- Garlic, moon and lies that I can not recognize in any way.

- A lot. After all, there is almost always a war.