Emma Martine

“I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and lying in wait for me.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.”
― Erlend Loe, Doppler

“The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through strange lands where no humans lived.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger