Status Updates From Rosshalde

"Undecided, Veraguth walked through the park, he didn't want to sleep any longer. But the burning eyes and a suffocated, slack feeling of the skin reminded him."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 144). Kindle Edition.

"What frightened her most was Pierre's indifference, it was as if he never loved her at all."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 126). Kindle Edition.

"For a brief moment a shadow of love and related sorrow ran across his stern face, and in that brief moment he was no longer the mighty father, but rather a poor, helpless brother."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 101). Kindle Edition.

"What do you want to be?"

"Nothing at all. I'd like to be a bird or something."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 93). Kindle Edition.

Veraguth squeezed the child's hand tighter.

"I already like him. He just prefers his mother to me. It's not your fault."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 70). Kindle Edition.

"So the friends stayed together until around midnight. Johann chattered and rooted around in memories of the old days, Otto listened and saw with almost reluctant pleasure a bright, cheerfully reflecting surface calmly closing where he had just looked into torn dark grounds."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 59). Kindle Edition.

"Are you bored?" he suddenly asked as if waking up and looked over suspiciously.

Otto smiled at him silently.

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 40). Kindle Edition.

'"Honey flowers!" he thought contemptuously and said nothing. He had long since learned that it is precisely the prettiest and most interesting things that one cannot know and explain.'

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 16). Kindle Edition.

"He took the pipe from the servant, had it lit, and greedily inhaled the aromatic smoke that enhanced and refined the effect of the coffee."

Hermann Hesse. Rosshalde (p. 11). Kindle Edition.