As a child, Richard had had nightmares in which he simply wasn't there, in which, no matter how much noise he made, no matter what he did, nobody ever noticed him at all.

“La persona más valiente que conozco, y eres mi amigo. Me importa un pimiento qu…”

“Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can …”

“And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and…”

“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”