Mark Roberts

“They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear.  We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god they have been taught to worship but know not; and, standing where the echoing dome spans the long vista of the shadowy light, glance up, half hoping, half afraid to see some awful vision hovering there. And”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms. Consider”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“K.’s uncle, who had already been made very angry by the long wait, turned abruptly round and retorted, “Ill? You say he’s ill?” and strode towards the gentleman in a way that seemed almost threatening, as if he were the illness himself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial