Before Quotes

“Why was my heart white? Two or three sentences are enough to relate how I had been pursued when I was just a defenseless girl waiting for them, unable to fend off that persecution! A few words easily define the whole restless night when they woke me in order to pen me in: “A frightened girl suffering nighttime panic because she hears menacing steps closing in on her in the dark.” What is “closing in?’ The question was never put, and it was never explained in a few words who “she” was… I”
― Carmen Boullosa, Before