Bjorn (p. 6): “Well, I was nearly always there too, I went with her. You can’t do much, but at least you’re there. But it’s not my body. That’s even more the case than in a pregnancy. There too, you’re just standing around with nothing to do. (..) You can try to understand what’s going on, to follow the procedure, but sometimes you simply can’t. Especially when they inject those hormones, I sometimes have absolutely no idea what’s going on. Then you may have to say, I don’t understand why, but they’re giving her hormones.”

Erica (p. 20): “He hated to see me suffer like that. (..) You could see him thinking, I just want it to stop. For your sake as well, but simply because … It’s just so terrible.”