I Am the Brother of XX Quotes

“Once when I was eight years old my grandmother asked me, what will you do when you grow up? And I answered, I want to die. I want to die when I grow up. I want to die soon. And I think my sister really liked that answer.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, I Am the Brother of XX

“People, nearly all of them, don’t know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know. My sister thought she knew. Knew the human race. . . . Knowledge doesn’t know. But that’s something few understand.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Sono il fratello di XX

“But one does have to give words some credit. One has to at least pretend that they more or less resemble their meaning. Their shady meaning.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Sono il fratello di XX

“Years later the bigot Agnes Blannbekin, on the 1st of January, again and again turns in her mouth, tender as egg-skin and very sweet, Christ’s foreskin.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, I Am the Brother of XX

“People, nearly all of them, don’t know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, I Am the Brother of XX