Erik Raab

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales

“I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales

“I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you?

I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’

and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’

Nothing.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales