Das Paket Quotes

“Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside. It also feeds on human time”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket

“Panic was like an invisible night-time monster. Even if you'd checked that it wasn't hiding in the cupboard or under the bed. you would still lie there for a while in the darkness, your heart pounding, unable to trust the tranquility.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket

“But there people knew nothing of the demons that would embed themselves particularly into sensitive souls, then at the moment of that person's greatest happiness whisper into their ear and reel off their shortcomings”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket

“Most people think that sleep is deaths little brother, whereas in fact it is his arch enemy. Not sleep but tiredness is the vanguard of eternal darkness”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket

“Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, The Package

“And she was worried that they were well on the way to proving Nietzsche’s dictum about the abyss: if you gazed into it deeply and for long enough, it would start gazing into you.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, The Package

“Some couples share a sense of humour, others have similar hobbies or the same political outlook. Emma and Philipp, on the other hand, laughed at completely different jokes, she couldn’t stand football and he didn’t share her love of musicals, and whereas in her youth she had demonstrated against nuclear power and the fur industry, he had been a member of the conservative youth association. What formed the bedrock of their relationship was empathy.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, The Package

“Out of love, Emma. I did it all only out of love”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket

“What sort of life is it if you can't distinguish between madness and reality?”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket

“Sometimes Emma wondered whether the Hairdresser had also given her a system reboot that night in the hotel and restored her emotional hard drive to its factory settings. And clearly she was a dud: defective goods that unfortunately couldn't be exchanged”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket