Author of quotes: Daniel Glattauer. Page 6

She was glad for him when he quickly finished, and for himself - when he quickly left.

Catherine was sitting in front of a computer and aimlessly combing the impenetrable jungle of the Internet. She could do this for hours. It was the dividing line between activity and idleness. Repose without inspiration. Dreams without sentimentality. A quest without a goal. A virtual look at the ceiling. Yawning through Google. Picking your nose without a nose. And without fingers.

...he had nothing against his status of bachelor. That was the most honest form of interpersonal relationships: every day for twenty-four hours Max communicated with his personality.

Zero degrees in the city is too small to freeze, and too many to thaw.

It's amazing how much is not said, though we are always talking about.

... computer equipment. How quickly it connects people so quickly and disperses. Here we are with their emotions powerless.

The flight is not the end, that will only delay the end.

You can sleep only with each other, and not together against some third party.

You do not pay attention to the fact that we know absolutely nothing about each other? We create in your mind some images, make some illusionist identikits of each other. Ask questions, the beauty of which consists in the fact that they remain unanswered. We turned it into a kind of sport to arouse the curiosity of the interlocutor and to incite him more, leaving without satisfaction. We are trying to read between the lines, between the words and soon, perhaps, begin to read between the letters. We frantically try to as accurately as possible assess each other. And at the same time, we show forth the wonders of virtuosity in the solution of another problem - not to give any of their essential features. Why are there "essential features" - nothing at all. We haven't told each other about their lives, have not opened a single part of our everyday life, nothing that could be interestingly different.