Csilla

“What power a girl can have over a boy, to make him write such things! And what power a boy can have over a girl, to make her believe he has seen her fate. We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Ásgrímr segir: ‘Illa er slíkt mælt, at verða mǫnnum þá sízt at liði, er mest liggr við.’ Asgrim said, ‘These are mean words; you are of least use when the need is greatest.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“This is so bad for him. Hundreds of people saying wonderful marvellous far too young what a genius. It seems to me that it is does not take miraculous intelligence to master the simple fact that ’Οδυσσε‡ς is Odysseus, if you go on to master 5,000 similar simple facts you have only shown that you are a miracle of obstinacy.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai