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Marion Sjøblom
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«Why them and not me? The answer was clear: they were just as strong and they fought just as hard to survive, but their fate was decided by a simple stroke of bad luck»
«Because if death here was so senseless and random, nothing, no amount of courage or planning or determination, could protect me from it.»
— Feb 10, 2026 02:37AM
«Because if death here was so senseless and random, nothing, no amount of courage or planning or determination, could protect me from it.»
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Marion Sjøblom
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later, will face the inevitable nearness of death.
‘We all have our own personal Andes’»
— Feb 11, 2026 09:23AM
‘We all have our own personal Andes’»
Marion Sjøblom
is on page 263 of 304
«I’d always though of my story as something unique, something so extreme and outrageous that only those who had been there could genuinely understand what we had been through. But in its essence - the essence of human emotion - it is the lost familiar story in the world. We all, at times, face hopelessness and despair. We all experience grief, abandonment and crushing loss. And all of us, sooner or
— Feb 11, 2026 09:22AM
Marion Sjøblom
is on page 225 of 304
«The sun will come up tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Look forward, you will have a future. You will live a life.»
— Feb 11, 2026 06:05AM
Marion Sjøblom
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«Then I looked up. At the end of the hallway, standing motionless in the thin fluorescent light, was the slim, bowed figure of my father. He pressed himself against me, touching me, convincing himself that I was real.»
— Feb 11, 2026 05:45AM
Marion Sjøblom
is on page 217 of 304
«Suddenly my thoughts were disturbed by shouting outside my door, and what sounded like a scuffle in the hallway.
‘My brother is in there! I have to see him! Please!’
In seconds she was in my arms.»
— Feb 11, 2026 05:44AM
‘My brother is in there! I have to see him! Please!’
In seconds she was in my arms.»
Marion Sjøblom
is on page 189 of 304
«can you imagine how beautiful this would be if we were not dead men? We may be walking to our deaths, but I would rather walk to meet my death than wait for it to come to me»
«We have been through so much. Now let’s go die together.»
— Feb 10, 2026 06:39AM
«We have been through so much. Now let’s go die together.»
Marion Sjøblom
is on page 168 of 304
«I handed him one of the tiny red shoes my mother had purchased in Mendoza for my nephew
‘Keep this. I’ll keep the other one. When I come back for you, we’ll have a pair again»
— Feb 10, 2026 04:31AM
‘Keep this. I’ll keep the other one. When I come back for you, we’ll have a pair again»
Marion Sjøblom
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«Like Carlitos, I had seen beauty in the mountains, but for me, it was a lethal beauty, and we were the blemish on that beauty that the mountain wanted to erase»
— Feb 10, 2026 03:09AM
Marion Sjøblom
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If you have the balls to doubt God, and to question all the things you have been taught about Him, then you may find God for real.»
— Feb 10, 2026 02:47AM
Marion Sjøblom
is on page 76 of 304
«What good is God to us? If He loves us so much why does He leave us here to suffer?»
«The God who is supposed to watch over you and protect you, who answers your prayers and forgives your sins. This God is just a story. The true God lies beyond our comprehension. He didn’t abandon us and He will not save us. God does not change, He simply is. I only pray to be closer to him
— Feb 10, 2026 02:46AM
«The God who is supposed to watch over you and protect you, who answers your prayers and forgives your sins. This God is just a story. The true God lies beyond our comprehension. He didn’t abandon us and He will not save us. God does not change, He simply is. I only pray to be closer to him
