That the boy was all that stood between him and death.

“Se quedó escuchando el goteo del agua en el bosque. Lecho rocoso, este. El frío…”

“You are either born a writer or you are not.”

“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe the…”

“Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming cor…”