Status Updates From Sammenkomsten (Danish Edition)

"We do not always
like the people we love–we do not always have that choice.
Maybe that was her mistake. She thought she could choose. She thought
she could marry someone she liked and be happy with him, and have happy
children. She did not realise that every choice is fatal. For a woman like
Ada, every choice is an error, as soon as it is made."

"The seed my of brother’s death were sown many years ago. So if I want to tell
Liam’s story, then I have to start long before he was born. And, in fact, this
is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with
its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I
think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head."

"You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them."