The Sanctum of Burning Souls (Welcome mat)

[Idle Miscreant]

I forgot to say something about myself: US-living, glasses-wearing, feminist, writer. I'm not as tall as Martha but you get the general idea.

The first bit of German I came across was the thoroughly cheerful "Nichts ist so elend als der Mann, der alles will und der nichts kann". I used to spring that into conversations rather arbitrarily for about half a year, when I was nine. According to my mother...

Ah, youth!