Caroline siterer Gun Love av Jennifer Clement (side 61)
01:18, 23. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
He gave me two cigarettes and said, Go on girl, set yourself on fire.
Caroline siterer Gun Love av Jennifer Clement (side 74)
01:18, 23. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I believe in love at first sight. Be careful what you look at.
Caroline siterer Gun Love av Jennifer Clement (side 23)
01:16, 23. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I understood everyone was walking around with secrets and broken bones and hurtful words that could not be washed away with soap.
My mother was a cup of sugar. You could borrow her anytime.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
13:41, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I try to understand, how was it possible to survive amid this endless experience of dying?
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
13:39, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Each time the truth is unbearable.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 276)
13:38, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
They died in the basements of the Gestapo, and their courage was known only to the walls. And now, forty years later, I mentally kneel to them.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 243)
13:35, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
In war everything happens more quickly: both life and death. In those few years we lived a whole life.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
13:33, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Suffering is a special kind of knowledge.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
01:25, 9. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Love is the only personal event in wartime. All the rest is common - even death.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
01:23, 9. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
For me one human being is so much. There is everything in him - you can get lost.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
18:07, 6. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The past disappeared, it blinded her with its scorching whirl and vanished, but the human being remained. Remained in the midst of ordinary life. Everything around is ordinary except her memory.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 112)
18:04, 6. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
It's terrible to remember, but it's far more terrible not to remember.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 60)
16:28, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
You ask me: what is happiness? I answer...To suddenly find a living man among the dead.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:53, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
We look at the past from today; we cannot look at it from anywhere else.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:50, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I build temples out of our feelings. Out of our desires, our disappointments. Dreams. Out of which was, but might slip away.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:43, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Suffering justifies our hard and ungainly life. For us pain is art.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:42, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Remembering is not a passionate or dispassionate retelling of a reality that is no more, but a new birth of the past, when time goes in reverse. Above all is creativity. As they narrate, people create, they write their life. Sometimes they also write up or rewrite.
Caroline siterer Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit av Jeanette Winterson (side 91)
16:09, 11. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
Caroline siterer Educated av Tara Westover (side 240)
20:47, 17. februar 2020* Ingen har det som favoritt.
I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it.
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