From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning b... - Franz Kafka

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."