's Nachts komen de vossen Quotes

“We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.”
― Cees Nooteboom, 's Nachts komen de vossen

“Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening."

She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.”
― Cees Nooteboom, 's Nachts komen de vossen

“There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later.”
― Cees Nooteboom, 's Nachts komen de vossen