Oddný Eir > Quotes

“I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“I think that home shouldn't be a place you need to leave if you want to experience something in consonance with your innermost being. Home should be a place of experimentation and discovery, a place of peace and quiet where the most natural in each individual can be developed in fine-tuning to the desires and searches of others.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“Next I want to try living apart together, live in the same country, the same city, even the same building as whomever I'm in a relationship with, yet in a different apartment than him. Then it would be possible to pay him visits and still invite good friends over to my place. Do you think you have that it takes to maintain such a French arrangement? he asked. Well, no, probably not...but then again...? Maybe it would be better in the long run to stay in a more lasting relationship and not need to move so often.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“You mustn't bury yourself alive, forget to rise up, or bind yourself to the dust in melancholy surrender.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“I'm sure I've been damaged by philosophy.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“She said it was no use waiting for trust to come to you fully formed, and then go and create a life and home together; you just had to start living with the person you loved best, and trust would build over time.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“It's one thing to remember, another to get stuck. Why don't people buy notepads and write poems instead of sit around on historical poem-pillows watching TV? Why not renew Romanticism, re-clarify the relationship between creation and memory?”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour.”
― Oddný Eir

“Might she have loved her brother so much that she was incapable of loving others?”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“It was my ornithologist, calling to remind me that I'm a ptarmigan and must be careful of falcons!”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that autobiographies are published. Who cares about your story?”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“Before he left, he took an ivy leaf from a book that was in his pocket and handed it to me, with greetings from Pentagonia, the kingdom of dark green pentangles. Should we get ourselves a place there? I said of course.”
― Oddný Eir

“And he added that he tried to ground himself regularly, but often just forgot to. Me too, I said.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins

“I wanted to tell it like it is, that they were right: it's nerve-wracking being a teenager. But instead, I explained to them the importance of being a trusted friend, and that friendship made the teenage years fun, when true camaraderie grew and developed.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins