Sten Nadolny Quotes

Large animals, John thought, move more slowly than mice and wasps. Perhaps he was secretly a giant.

Someday he'd be quicker... to be like the sun, which only seems to wander slowly across the sky, yet whose rays are as quick as the blink of an eye. ...they reach in one instant the most distant mountains.

How did Tom get there? Again, a piece of time had dropped out.

The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in the street...

The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed.

There are two varieties of men. Some understand 'some women', the others are those who simply 'understand women'.

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'.