Paul Leppin > Quotes

“This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children’s faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.”
― Paul Leppin, Blaugast: A Novel of Decline

“The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through the play of the flames, narrowed to disappear completely. His back hurt and he could hear darkness breathing audibly.”
― Paul Leppin, Blaugast: A Novel of Decline

“The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves.”
― Paul Leppin, Blaugast: A Novel of Decline

“He shuddered because he was seized--suddenly and almost hauntingly--by the knowledge that love was magic, more wonderful than all that had gone before, deep, painful, and inescapable...”
― Paul Leppin, Others' Paradise

“Veronika feared him. It was miraculous to her that she had come home, back to life. She thus loved Roman Maria with her huge and damaged love — and because she knew it would be the last love of her life, she threw her heart into its darkened fountain — her heart — passionate and wasted, fraught with wounds.”
― Paul Leppin, Others' Paradise

“That is Veronika Selig. A year ago she went with Roman Maria, into life. She stayed there a long time — in between, her eyes became darker. But now she is here, again. —”
― Paul Leppin, Others' Paradise