Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.


Visitation (ed. Granta Books, 2011) - ISBN: 9781846273957

Jenny Erpenbeck Quotes

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak...

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak...

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak...

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak...