Kedilerin asıl yüzünü tanımayan insanlardan, onların köpeklere nazaran duygusuz olduğunu, asosyal ve bencil olduğunu duymuştu. Ve o zaman içinden, Siz bir kediyle beraber yaşanan yılları tecrübe etmemişsiniz, onların tatlılığını ne bileceksiniz ki... diye geçirmişti.
"You knew the password, so I let you in the door
You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score?
You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart
But what you did was just as dark."
He seemed to think Marianne had access to a range of different identities, between which she slipped effortlessly. This surprised her, because she usually felt confined inside one single personality, which was always the same regardless of what she did or said. She had tried to be different in the past, as a kind of experiment, but it had never worked.
Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it.