Herta Müller

"Perhaps we had to stand so long as to stop the time in motion. Our bones became heavy as iron. When the flesh on your body disappears,your bones become a burden, and the ground pulls you down."

"Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object."

"The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse."

"If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have."

"Riding somewhere was always a happy thing. First of all: as long as you're moving, you haven't arrived. As long as you haven't arrived, you don't have to work. Riding in truck gives you time to recove…"

"The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are."

"Hunger devours nearly all the artistry."

"You go out for a walk and the world opens up for you. And before you’ve even stretched your legs properly, it closes shut. For here to there it’s all just the farty sputter of lantern. And they call t…"