Helen wasn't pretty. She was a collection of aesthetic commonplaces,
an overabundance of personal hygiene and fashion effort, but she wasn't
pretty in the classical sense of the word. She was someone best seen
from afar.
-- Wolfgang Herrndorf.
Sand (novel, 2011) translation by Tim Mohr (2017), London: Pushkin
Press. (chapter 4).
If you want to build a ship, don't try to drum up men to procure wood,
prepare tools, allocate duties and divide up the work, teach men to
yearn for the vast, open ocean.
-- Wolfgang Herrndorf. Sand (novel, 2011) translation by Tim Mohr (2017), London: Pushkin Press. (chapter 20 "In The Land Of The Ouz").