Status Updates From Frie folk (Frie mænd, #1-2)

"This was the first time that he had looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value: he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come he relived this memory in song... For the understanding of the souls defenclessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song....the source is sympathy."

aaaand the scene i just read makes me want to put down the entire book and never pick it back up again