The Weight of Things Quotes

“This is the Distinguished Dr. Primarius Gottfried Trimm," Wilhelm whispered, looking imploringly, if not quite with outright horror, at his wife, who in general had little understanding of social hierarchies.

"Aha," Willhelmine said, adding: "He's a bit of a porker.”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“The man who makes light of what he's won is never able to defend it, and the man who doesn't know how to defend what he's won will lose far more than just his treasure!”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“These were the words of this angel of angels, her baroque face beaming with those glorious feelings of triumph that sometimes fill people in the know when they have a chance to lord their secrets over their faintly hopeful, warily ignorant victims.”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“Was the longing still there and the burning silence?”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“A man, a word, and then you're lost.”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“The next morning, the thirty-three-year-old bachelor with an irascible character, who had so passionately deflowered the twenty-two-year-old neighbor girl Berta Faust, promised himself he would make sure that —as soon as this nightmarish war was over— the broodingly shy Berta with the vast astonishment in her eyes would get a man with Alban Bergian faithfulness and Beethovenesque rigor.”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can.”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things

“...the ideal legal form being, it goes without saying, the one in which the least taxes are paid and the company is least vulnerable to any official prying.”
― Marianne Fritz, The Weight of Things