Professor Isak Borg: I like you, Marianne.Marianne Borg: I like you too, uncle Isak.
Dr. Evald Borg: It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we were.Marianne Borg: That's just an excuse.Dr. Evald Borg: Call it what you want. I was an unwanted child in a hellish marriage.
Marianne Borg: You're a coward.Dr. Evald Borg: Yes. This life sickens me. I will not be forced to take on a responsibility that will make me live for one day longer than I want to. And you know that I mean what I say.
I dozed off, but was haunted by vivid and humiliating dreams. There was something overpowering in these dream images that bored relentlessly into my mind.