Eva Heller > Quotes

“It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“We don't have anything in common. We just complement each other. You don't have to do everything together; you need some distance between you. But there's no ideal distance and there are only two possibilities: either you reduce the distance or you enlarge it. And because we want to reduce the distance, we're going to get married. Some time or another.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“I think it's better if you rely on the fact you belong together, instead of having to reinvent your togetherness every day. People who say right off the bat that they don't want to take risks because their relationship is going to dissolve anyway - well, you might just as well split up right away. Why wait?”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Sexual frustration' - it always sounds like the only frustrated ones are the ones who don't do it. What a laugh. The frustrated ones are the ones who do do it! The ones who don't can at least preserve some illusions.”
― Eva Heller

“He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“we wish you everything you wish yourself' Jurgen said.
'What do you wish yourself?' Birgit asked.
I felt silly 'I don't really have any specific wishes'
'a new old man perhaps?' Juliet said playfully
'but please, not just any old man!' I said.
'of course not just any old man! The man with whom it'll all be different.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Maybe she'd ended up going to Ireland because whilst visiting her father she'd bumped into an old love from her youth, perhaps even her ex? Such spontaneous acts really only worked with men left over from earlier in your life.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Outside the seasons passed: sun, snow, spring green, October storms . . . was this a vision of my future? When would the shunning hero come, to set the clock if my life in motion again? Would he come some morning, or in the night? In April or December? This year? Next year? I shuddered. No, I wouldn't just sit and wait. I wanted to go out. 
Maybe there were new men out there, better men, men who'd just been waiting for me. Somewhere someone is always waiting for someone.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?”
― Eva Heller

“There's no point in clinging to illusions.”
― Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

“Don't claim you are sincere, just be it!”
― Eva Heller