The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, ... Today he married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter and I shall join him in his own country... The strange thing is, I don't think myself silent. That is because of my piano. I shall miss it on the journey. ~ Holly Hunter as Ada in The Piano (1993).
