-That's how it is, Ephix, Esther sighed. Oh, what worries this child has given us. As if misfortune is chasing us. Look, the one who ruined us is now marrying a nobody, a ragamuffin, and Naomi, again, refuses the riches and I think deep down, she loves Prentou. That's what I say. Why, Ephix, must misfortune always chase us? Ephix was lost in thought with his head down.

-We are like reeds in the wind, Mrs. Esther. Yes! We are reeds and fortune is the wind.

-Yes, I understand, but why must we have such luck and not another?

-And why does the wind blow? Only God knows.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]