Now everything would be different; a little today, all of it tomorrow. — Sten Nadolny

"The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed."

"Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen etwas von Frauen, die anderen sind solche, die einfach Frauen verstehen."

"The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the others talk, the goings-on in the street..."

"Someday hed be quicker... to be like the sun, which only seems to wander slowly across the sky, yet whose rays are as quick as the blink of an eye. ...they reach in one instant the most distant mountains."

"Large animals, John thought, move more slowly than mice and wasps. Perhaps he was secretly a giant."

"How did Tom get there? Again, a piece of time had dropped out."