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“Karolina shows signs of aggression towards her teachers. Karolina is becoming antisocial in her behaviour. Karolina takes vodka into the classroom. Karolina listens to decadent Western music. Karolina is hostile towards the apparatus of the State.” Do you know what I replied?’ Karolina shook her head silently. ‘I said, “Leave her be. She is a young wolf. Young wolves bite and snap at the adults. But they grow up. Let her run with the other young wolves. She will return.”
― Marius Gabriel, The German Daughter

“Germany is asleep. Like this bomb. You saw the young longhairs throwing stones on the television?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘They are paid by Moscow to promote communism. And the fat poltroons who now run Germany allow them to spread their poison unopposed.’ ‘Not exactly unopposed,’ Agnes said, reluctantly drawn into the man’s diatribe. ‘The police arrested a lot of them.’ ‘Those are not police,’ he retorted. ‘They are packets of lard in uniform. Soft. And the agitators will be out of their cells by teatime, freed by their Jew lawyers.”
― Marius Gabriel, The German Daughter

“like tying a knot in a tiger’s tail.”
― Marius Gabriel, The German Daughter

“still have useful contacts of my own in this country. Please don’t interrogate me. I have it all in hand.’ ‘I’m not interrogating you,’ Agnes snapped. ‘I just want to be treated like an adult, not a child.’ ‘Then perhaps you could begin behaving like an adult,’ he replied coolly. ‘You are really insufferable,’ she said. ‘So I have been told. You are not the first to make this important discovery. I am going to get something to eat. You may come if you choose.”
― Marius Gabriel, The German Daughter