“All that had happened and would happen was meant to be. Everything happens as it is meant to be.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“On her death bed: “And her tears burst forth in a swift stream, for it seemed to her that never before had she understood to the full what it betokened. The life that ring had wed her to, that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied – none the less she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when ‘twould not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret—”
― The Cross
― The Cross
“Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother’s womb.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“But it looked as if Brother Edvin had become so wrinkled simply from smiling at people. Kristin thought she had never seen anyone who looked so cheerful or so kind. He seemed to carry within him a luminous and secret joy, and she was able to share it whenever he spoke.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
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