"I try to write true stories but at a given point the story becomes unbearable because of its very truth, and I have to change it. ...I try to tell my story but all of a sudden I can't - I don't have the courage, it hurts too much. And so I embellish everything and describe things not as they happened but the way I wish they had happened.
No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as life."
-Lucas T, The Third Lie by Agota Kristof
A roleplay journal of Lucas T, PB Viggo Mortensen. Novel written by Agota Kristof, translation by Marc Romano. No copyright infringement intended.