Ingeborg Bachmann Quotes

The facts that make the world real- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

The woman was finally done, and Beatrix reached for a magazine. There were always German magazines lying around here, Vogue was extremely rare; who wanted to read German magazines, anyway? Twin Murders in Stuttgart. Certainly an awful place, it even sounded like murder. Sex in Germany. That was probably even worse.

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.