Der Skorpion. Band 1

“During these years her moods alternated like sun and showers in April. She longed to be dead, or to come of age, to be alive in another century, or some other part of the earth, to be a nun or so beautiful as to ravish the entire world.””

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“She did not wish to die. Or rather, she would gladly have died, if it had not involved being dead.””

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“Usually we miss our best friends by a century or two. We know some by reading about them or seeing their pictures. But that is all: of those who will be born after us, we know nothing.””

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“For the first few months everything went splendidly. That is the most unhappy part of an unhappy love”

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“I have an antipathy to dogs, not because they are faithful, but because they are shameless. Because they carry on their love affairs on the street.” Again that crimson flush overspread her features. “Cats are more cultured about such things”

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“Promise me one thing,” she said softly with a quality in her voice as of joylessness which nothing could ever animate again. ““When I am dead, put flowers on my grave. Not at my funeral and not a large bought wreath. “I like to imagine how I'll receive visits, how I'll lie there and sleep. I love graveyards so”

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“I would die of shame if I thought that only the nerve-endings in our skin vibrate. Don’t you feel that something has happened to your soul that must remain with it beyond all death? Don’t you feel that this hour has changed you beyond any power of death to change?” “Yes,” said Metta. “And more than any birth. I was born today”

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“Comrade,” she thought, “a beautiful, a dear word. Comrade! I would like to be that, and I can be. Comradeship. That is my strength.””

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch

“It is a great art, indeed, to know how to end. At the right time. And in the right way.””

— Anna Elisabet Weirauch