Delibab

“Mármost ha az a helyzet, hogy mindenki tök, csak mi állunk a vártán ragyogón, okosan, mint a nap, akkor azért érdemes gyanút fogni.”
― Péter Esterházy, Az elefántcsonttoronyból

“No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?'

Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat.

Then she reached over, carefully, and thrust her arm up to the elbow into the burning torch.

And the doll in Erzulie Gogol's hands burst into flame.

It went on blazing even after the witch had screamed and dropped it on to the floor. It went on burning until Nanny Ogg ambled over with a jug of fruit juice from the buffet, whistling between her teeth, and put it out.

Granny withdrew her hand. It was unscathed.”
― Terry Pratchett

“15 For fifty fillérs my father would eat a fly, for one florint you could take a picture of the cadaver in his tongue, for five florints and an apple (Starking), he’d bite a mouse in two. He never worked with outsourced mice, he liked to catch his own.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“De, ismétlem, a valódi irodalmi mű, nem is okvetlenül a remekmű, mint egy élőlény: kimeríthetetlen. És szabad.”
― Péter Esterházy, Az elefántcsonttoronyból