Erpenbeck Quotes

#1. Sometimes the price one pays for something continues to grow after the fact,becoming too expensive long after it has been paid.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#2. If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

Frank Perdue

#3. Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

Jenny Erpenbeck

#4. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?

Dan Simmons

#5. Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#6. My fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#7. Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Wilkie Collins

#8. I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

Usher

#9. The end of a day on which a life has ended is still far from being the end of days.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#10. How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#11. School yourself in all occasions to keep perfectly cool; maintain a perfect control of temper, come what will: one that can govern himself can govern others.

Roseanne Montillo

#12. A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#13. I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.

Anita Hill

#14. Laura tells herself, This is now, and feels happy because the now could not be forgotten as it was happening.

Camille Pagan

#15. For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.

Neil Strauss

#16. Every single moment of this afternoon is too late for her to leave again

Jenny Erpenbeck

#17. ... when he slipped out of his mother's womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn't belong to him, and he can't just look inside to inspect his own interior.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#18. The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

#19. It would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then the person giving the speech at the funeral would be able to say that until the very end they had been able to pursue what they loved: sailing. [p. 121]

Jenny Erpenbeck

#20. Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.

Jenny Erpenbeck