Gabi Kreslehner > Quotes

“When you love something, you keep it to yourself. Then no one can take it from you.”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“It was all doom and gloom outside: wind, rain, and it was not getting any lighter. When the Danube sent the fog, everything sank into a state of insignificance. People wandered around aimlessly as if nothing concerned them. She walked to the room telephone,”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“Her hair was a tangled mess of blood, rain, and dirt—impossible to tell the color, dark brown maybe, bordering on black. A strand lay across her face, dividing it into two halves. Franza kneeled next to the girl and carefully brushed the strand of hair to one side, putting the halves back together.”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“looked beautiful. Then the regret and”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“had”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“Do you think it’ll get even hotter?” Felix asked. “I know you don’t particularly like the heat, but . . . it’d be nice for the kids.” Franza shrugged, wishing herself away, to Lapland or the Arctic Ocean. There were lights there, iridescent lights, far out on the ice. Will-o’-the-wisps with white halos, hissing and fizzing like sparklers, only brighter. And more dangerous. They were ghost lights, and if you walked toward them you would disappear. Franza wanted that sometimes on days like today. To disappear as if she had never existed. Just for a few moments. Into the ghost lights and away.”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“and”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl

“Let me guess,” Felix said. “The rest area between Lenting and Denkendorf.”
― Gabi Kreslehner, Rain Girl