Max Geddes

“Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the winter. Oh, spring does come eventually, and summer, and they last for a while, but now, looking back, spring and summer seem too short, as if they were not much more than a couple of days, and even on those days, no matter how lovely the day, it still snows occasionally.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“Don't you like him Ellen?'

'Like him?' I exclaimed. 'The worst tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into its teens! Happily, as Mr Heathcliff conjectures, he'll not win twenty! I doubt whether he'll see spring, indeed - and small loss to his family, whenever he drops off; and lucky it is for us that his father took him - The kinder he was treated, the more tedious and selfish he'd be! I'm glad you have no chance of having him for a husband, Miss Catherine!”
― Emily Brontë

“Her brother was her mother's minor moon, her warmest sun, and at the exact same time, a tiny satellite that she had forgotten about. He would orbit her for an eternity, even as she, and then he, broke into bits.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle