"It was my first day." (3)

"It was at dinner one night not long after I began to live with them that they began to call me that Visitor. They said I seemed not to be a part of things, as if I didn't live in their house with them, as if they weren't like a family to me, as if I were just passing through ..." (13)

"I had meant by telling them my dread that I had taken them in, because only people who were very important to me had ever shown up in my dreams. I did not know if they understood that." (15)

"It was not from feelings of love and longing that I did this; quite the contrary. It was from a feeling of hatred. There was nothing so strange about this, for isn't it so that love and hate exist side by side?" (20)

"Again I thought...