Author: Heinrich Boll

Cited by

• Dan Vyleta (2)
  • IN: The Crooked Maid (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: I am afraid of houses in which one grows comfortable and allows oneself to be taken in by the banal truth that life goes on and time heals all wounds.
    FROM: Billards at Half-Past Nine, (1959), Novel, Germany
  • IN: The Quiet Twin (2011) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: And I wil take a further secret to the grave: that I once observed Mother, how she secretly went into the cellar larder, cut herself a thick slice of ham and ate it downstairs, standing up, with her hands, hurriedly, it didn't even look repulsive, just surprising, I was more touched thatn appalled [...] Curiously enough, I like those of whose kinds I am: human beings.
    FROM: A Clown's Perspectives, (1963), Novel, Germany
• Mark Lawson (1)
  • IN: The Allegations (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the back page he saw that the News had transformed his statement that Katharina was intelligent, cool, and level-headed into 'ice-cold and calculating,' and his general observations on crime now read that she was 'entirely capable of committing a crime'.
    FROM: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, (1974), Novel, Germany