Joanna

“- Hon pluggar dubbelt. Har jag sagt det? Hon läser tyska också.

- Vad ska hon bli då?

- Va?

- Ja, med all tyska och historia? Nazist?”
― Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

“All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published.
And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it.”
― Robert Harris, The Ghost

“Nature devours us. Icy winds and rain and salt and snow erode us, decompose us, reduce us to molecules, carbon compounds; the covalent bonds between the carbon and hydrogen atoms break. Our atoms mingle with the brown grains of sand on the only small strip of beach on White Island.”
― Bea Uusma, Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria