Lyric Novella Quotes

“Do I often think of Sibylle?
I'd say that I don't know. I don't think about her but I haven't forgotten her for a minute. It's as if I'd never lived without her. Nothing holds us together but I am steeped in her presence. I sometimes remembered the scent of her skin or breath and it would feel as if she was still holding me in her arms while dancing or sitting next to me and I would only have to reach out my hand to touch her. But what is supposed to hold us together - these long evenings, these long nights, these farewells at her door in the dawn light, these endless periods of loneliness?”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lyric Novella

“In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lyric Novella