Luisa Froehle

“—Yo no estoy acostumbrado a tomarme la vida a broma, querido marqués. La frivolidad no es lo mío, y menos aún en cuestión de travesuras; porque hay travesuras y bromas que deben tomarse muy, muy en serio…, o nunca saldrán bien. Una gran broma sólo llega a serlo cuando uno ha invertido en ella toda la seriedad del mundo.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“A long walk. A very long walk. Sand between my toes. The rough surf at times reaching and washing away my footprints. About a mile down the beach, I sat down and started thinking back through everything Vance had told me so far. Thought about what my next moves would be. Seeing the Asian guy tomorrow and having him snoop would settle one thing in my mind. Did Vance do it or not? Crucial. Until I knew that, I didn’t want to go any further.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods