- Montse: Men are instinctive, they only want one thing from us. It's in their nature, they can't help it. But they can do a lot of harm. I only want to protect you.
- La Niña: Sure, by hitting me. I don't know how a man can harm me more than you.
- Carlos: Start by telling the truth, and maybe that way someone will love you one day.
- La Niña: Who do you think God will forgive? You... or me?
- [last lines]
- La Niña: Shrews are rodents that burrow long caves underground, far from other animals. They have solitary customs and some have venomous glands to immobilize larger prey.
- Padre: I love these moments of yours before the storm. I never know which way you'll jump. For example, where will you hide the girl? There are no more empty spaces.
- Montse: I'll see.
- Montse: Maybe saying it sounds poetic and romantic, but it's not. Being sick with love is the most terrible thing there is.
- Montse: Easy, isn't it? Just climb the stairs, go in, a few yards, right above. But for me it's like touching the sky. An impossible distance to travel. I'm that far away from the world and real life. That's how bad I am. I've turned this house into a giant coffin from which I can't escape.
- [first lines]
- La Niña: [voiceover] All children love bedtime stories. I was the exception. The worst part of the day was when my sister came to my room with her red book of stories, open a page at random and start reading. They were always horror stories, scary stories about evil people who took advantage of others. There'd be a huge, powerful ogre who watched over the humans. I'd have to pretend to sleep so Montse would stop reading. But what scared me most was that every night, she'd leave very sad. I thought maybe she'd realized I was pretending to sleep. And I felt very guilty. It took me years to find out that when she closed the door, Montse faced her own ogre. It also took me years to find out what the book was that filled my nights with nightmares.
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