The Master's Apprentice Quotes

“If he was truly of noble blood, then why had God made him so darn scrawny? He would gladly give some of his brains for more muscles—the only currency that counted for anything among children.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“He was the greatest magician of his time, and a con artist, astrologer, and charlatan. He was as clever and learned as a dozen scholars and as cunning as the Borgias”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“Cut-open bodies displayed life so clearly that Johann thought all the sinews, bones, and organs looked like they were part of a large clock. The”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“Winter, O winter, you frighten me not. I sit by the stove and my fire burns hot. O winter, keep howling, I show thee no mercy. I’m drinking my beer where it’s warm and it’s cozy . .”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“They want to be spellbound; they want to believe that the devil really exists. Because only if the devil exists does God exist.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“Evil is the chaos that rails against the established truths and perpetually promises new beginnings.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“The liberal arts are the prerequisite for any higher education. The three lower ones, also known as the trivium, are grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic. Then follow the four upper arts, called the quadrivium. They include arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“Chaos would reign, because nothing would make sense any longer. We would be all alone in the universe without any solace, and without hope. That’s how I imagine hell. In my darkest hours I sometimes think we’re already in hell, only we haven’t noticed.” “And if there is a hell, then there is a devil,” replied Wagner. “Oh yes, he exists.” Johann took one last, long sip and stared into emptiness. “He exists. He just isn’t quite the way we imagine him.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“Elisabeth had known soon after their wedding that she’d never be happy with Jörg Gerlach. But who cared? No one ever said joy and happiness played a role in marriage. People married to have children and to share the workload of the house and the fields.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“A blind beggar tapped his stick along the dirty cobblestones; a drunken man vomited in a corner. No one else was in sight. Gray autumn fog seeped through the lanes.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

“These people never smell the old rat, e’en when he has them by the collar. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend