Ann-helèn Rustad

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
― Jorge Luis Borges