Frank Hestvik

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones most people felt in Freud's [..] day. The moralizing respectability and the fear of sex evidenced in Freud's day no longer exist. I am told that today's resistances come in the form of summary, seemingly pitiless and unrelenting "wild" self-analyses offered up by those who claim to have understood "everything" about themselves.”
― Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds

“Jeg kunne aldri ha gitt opp alt, for den andre, slik så mange kvinner har gjort i historien. For jeg er sint på disse kvinnene, for det de ikke lar lagt igjen av seg selv.”
― Edy Poppy, Anatomia. Monotonia.

“Bitch, on that world, was what men called women they were extremely fond of or extremely displeased with when the woman was not there.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

“Man sværmer om sommeren, så holder man op for den gang. Men nogen sværmer hele sitt liv og står ikke til å forandre.”
― Knut Hamsun, Dreamers