Dorthe Nors > Quotes

“But sometimes," whispers Sonja, " things really don't work out. You see it all the time; how things don't work out at all. People suddenly maimed, broken, dead, and then things really didn't work out - or they did, they worked out terribly. And it's not supposed to happen that way, is it, that things work out terribly? Or that nothing you ever dreamed of comes to anything? The continents you wanted to explore turn out to be stripped of resources, drained and desolate. Stuntedness as far as the eye can see, and you know perfectly well that you should make the journey back to where you came from. That you have to change course and scrape yourself together, but how do you fool yourself that it was better in the place you left? The place you came from no longer exists, and I think I've lost the right to imagine my future.”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“It’s hard to find clothes to fit the body you have, and it’s hard to find words to fit the people you love”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“...Sonja had to switch off. She turned down that knob in her brain that let her take in the world at full blast...”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“There are two reasons why an organization is a good place to begin changing the world. First, an organization sells convictions rather than products. Second, selling convictions is all about ideals.”
― Dorthe Nors, Karate Chop

“Within her there seems to be a rattling; from little stones, from stalks, from days when it never quits. Inside her the sky empties itself in slow, unresolving fashion, and there isn’t anything worth naming in the fridge.”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“When it rains this hard, she can’t see the city she’s gone astray in”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“It’s as if Molly’s face has acquired a barred grille, the sort you see in front of jewellery stores. She can yank down the grille in a trice, so that no one can barge in and help themselves to the wares. The technique frightens Sonja”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“But the person that you pity is a person in your power.”
― Dorthe Nors, Wild Swims

“She pointed into it like it was a piece of psychology. She said the Wadden Sea was an image in the mind’s eye, and that she was glad I wanted to go with her into it.”
― Dorthe Nors, Karate Chop & Minna Needs Rehearsal Space

“Hun gik ud til sangsvanerne, og der satte hun sig som amerikaneren satte sig på Lønborg Hede: Hun afgav suverænitet, kom til sig selv, lagde menneskene bag sig og var lykkelig i sine gule træsko.”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“He wanted to be alone, so that's what he is now.
...
He wanted the feeling of winning, and now he has a view of a landscape at dusk.”
― Dorthe Nors, Wild Swims

“How do you hide from people who make themselves angry just to feel alive? They're everywhere, and it's tricky making yourself invisible in a world that's as flat as a pancake.”
― dorthe nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

“Look over there, the moss," she said, and I drank in everything I saw.”
― Dorthe Nors, Wild Swims

“Her face can clap shut over a feeling like the lid of a freezer over stick insects.”
― Dorthe Nors, Wild Swims