These Possible Lives Quotes

“His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could close his eyelids. The room smoked of grief.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, These Possible Lives

“To the East: ibis and crocodiles found him pedantic — the flâneur was driven forward by opium-fueled theological caprices. A pack of gods clutched him. The pyramids, hospice of the dead. He dreamed up the abominable crocodile head and the turbaned Malay, delighting in the sickness and horror of original matter, deposits of which could be traced back to the stars.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, These Possible Lives