All Girls Be Mine Alone Quotes

“I’d make the route from Lara’s house to the train station along the tall, fenced-in juniper bushes in a humiliated, bothersome agony, feeling, I thought, not unlike the way Alfredo might have felt in the opening act of La traviata. I would listen to this part of La traviata on my headphones, swelling in the horniness of the music. How did Alfredo get Violetta to fall in love with him just by loving her alone, from afar? Why was he so much luckier than me? Why did this— getting a woman to love you simply out of the pureness of your heart—only happen to men?”
― Sophie Strohmeier, All Girls Be Mine Alone

“I wanted to give it to Lea as a message: with the novella (which, in my mind, she would read immediately) I would show her that I knew my place, that I would make absolutely no trouble. I had always wanted to do this, communicate in puzzles. I would suffer silently, ennobled by my futile situation.”
― Sophie Strohmeier, All Girls Be Mine Alone