Romy Hausmann > Quotes

“Happiness feels warm, almost like a slight fever; it has a smell and a heartbeat that goes like the second hand on the kitchen clock.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“Worry is more like the feeling of sickness you get when you’ve got a tummy ache and you don’t know if you’re going to have to throw up or not.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“He abducted me to give his children another mother.”
― Romy Hausmann, Liebes Kind

“Everything in life has its consequences”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“I don't know how often I need to say this until she understands. There always has to be a favourite child you can rely on.”
― Romy Hausmann, Liebes Kind

“The trees are making a final show of their potency before winter, putting on their loveliest display of color.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“No," I say. "We know how everything works. We have our own rules, you see. It's just that Mama forgets them sometimes. But luckily she's got us, we remind her of them”
― Romy Hausmann, Liebes Kind

“Happiness is a particularly positive feeling, a state of being pleased or content.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“Where there’s feeling—even if it’s pain—there’s life that can be recovered.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“You haven’t got us, not really.
It’s your prison, not ours.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“I have no fear of failure. I like to test myself and see how far I get. If there are any limits to what I can do then I'm the one who sets them”
― Romy Hausmann

“Lo spavento è come quando senti la scossa elettrica dentro. Il cuore salta fuori dal posto e quando ci ritorna batte più forte di prima e delle volte fa anche male. Ti fischiano gli orecchi e hai tanto freddo che tremi. allora lo spavento capisce che ha funzionato e magari la smette. delle volte lo spavento è solo uno scherzo. E siccome ti sei spaventato lo stesso ti viene da ridere perché sei stato così scemo e ci sei cascato.”
― Romy Hausmann, Perfect Day

“Then all he had was you, Lena, who he loved, but at the same time hated for your part in what had happened.”
― Romy Hausmann, Dear Child

“La rabbia è invisibile come l'aria e poi si infila dentro quando ti arrabbi tanto. Prima senti un nodo in gola e sbuffi come un toro. Ti comincia a battere forte forte il cuore e stringi i denti per calmarti. Però non funziona perché la rabbia è più forte delle persone. Scoppia dentro il corpo e siccome non lo sopporti più cominci a muovere le braccia e le gambe e cominci a picchiare o a tirare calci. Solo così la rabbia esce dal corpo e ti lascia in pace. Anche io una volta mi sono arrabbiata, e cioè con la mia MAMMA. Ma non l'ho picchiata perché era malata. Non si picchiano i malati. Purtroppo ora è morta.”
― Romy Hausmann, Perfect Day

“Grief is a creature with sharp claws. It makes a cruel cut down my torso like in an autopsy. It pushes my ribs apart and reaches right into my open chest to squash my heart like an old sponge”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“Why didn't you fight back?" I asked, because I was too stupid, or just too tired, not yet clear-headed, having been jolted out of my sleep when I heard Kirsten come crashing into the apartment. Because I'd been sleeping like everyone else, while Kirsten was attacked in a rear courtyard. Kirsten turned her ashen, unfamiliar looking face to me and said, "Because at that moment, I was dead. I didn't have a body anymore. No arms to thrash about with. No legs to kick him with. And my mind was elsewhere”
― Romy Hausmann, Liebes Kind

“Chi può sapere di cosa siano capaci le persone disperate quando pensano di essere nel giusto e perdono il controllo?”
― Romy Hausmann, Perfect Day

“But, the way I see it, fury is like an avalanche: once it gets going it's unstoppable”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“Because ninety-five percent of all dead bodies eventually turn up again somewhere”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“For "guilt" is just another synonym for "death" - a crueller, more agonizing death”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“La noia non dipendeva affatto da luogo in cui si viveva, ma dalle persone che ci circondavano.”
― Romy Hausmann, La mamma si è addormentata

“Paul replied that boredom had nothing to do with the place where you lived, but with the people around you”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“And even the promises I gave to my family are ultimately just words. Meaningless words if they're not followed up by deeds. The right deeds”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless

“La delusione è come quando ti buttano l'acqua in faccia. All'inizio sei triste e ti viene da piangere perché non pensavi che qualcuno poteva essere così cattivo. E poi ti fai rabbia perché sei stato così stupido a fidarti di quella persona. Allora la delusione è anche colpa tua e al prossima volta devi essere più furbo.”
― Romy Hausmann, Perfect Day

“Il potere della fantasia può essere consolatorio.
O mortale.”
― Romy Hausmann, Perfect Day

“Assurdo come in alcune situazioni la mente umana cerchi di tappare i buchi riempiendoli di pensieri.”
― Romy Hausmann, La mamma si è addormentata

“Sometimes its the going down itself that brings me out into a cold sweat. Down down ever farther below ground where the arched roof seems like a huge brick tomb.”
― Romy Hausmann

“Nessun figlio è colpevole per le azioni dei genitori.”
― Romy Hausmann, Perfect Day

“Matthias Beck is straining to breathe. It's hard to watch this, but maybe that's how it is. Love. It's love. No matter how sick, distorted and misunderstood, it's still love. Love that spurs us on. That turns us into monsters, each in our own way.”
― Romy Hausmann, Liebes Kind

“Lenggries leafed through the papers in a folder. Paul slid his hands beneath his thighs when he felt the urge to grab this woman by the collar of her smart, fitted blazer and drag her across the table to spell out the seriousness of the situation”
― Romy Hausmann, Sleepless