"You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage."

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Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

— Anne Frank