“Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”
― The Copenhagen Trilogy
― The Copenhagen Trilogy
“Vanity', he said, 'is the curse of our culture; or perhaps it is simply my own persistent refusal', he said, 'to believe that artists are also human beings.”
― Outline
― Outline
“To write, you have to want something to survive you.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“I always think there is a mystical understanding between the moon and the street, like between two sisters who have grown old together and no longer need any language to communicate with each other.”
― The Copenhagen Trilogy
― The Copenhagen Trilogy
“I invite the confessionals of men. I am not a stranger to them. Absorbing the guilt and the sorrow is something the world expects of women.”
― The Water Cure
― The Water Cure
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