Dag etter dag er himmelen grå og i sørgelig harmoni med sinnstilstanden.
Solveig siterer At Freddie's (Flamingo) av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 12)
20:52, 14. mai 2017* Ingen har det som favoritt.
He said that he was obliged to be going, for, as a busy man, a necessary condition of his being anywhere was to be on the way somewhere else.
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Solveig siterer Hotel Du Lac av Anita Brookner (side 98)
15:18, 12. mai 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening.
Solveig siterer Hotel Du Lac av Anita Brookner (side 28)
15:14, 12. mai 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The facts of life are too terrible to go into my kind of fiction.
Forsider jeg elsker
Solveig siterer A Moveable Feast av Ernest Hemingway (side 54)
17:06, 27. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people […]. People were always the limiters to happiness.
Her er min anmeldelse av Forliset (ekstern lenke)
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 221)
23:49, 19. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe...
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 193)
15:24, 19. april 2017* Ingen har det som favoritt.
...how can any real connection be established between two persons when one is eating and the other merely watching?
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 144)
01:59, 19. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
But surely liking the same things for dinner is one of the deepest and most lasting thigs you could possibly have in common with anyone.
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 84)
12:11, 18. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... there was a certain pleasure in not doing something; it was impossible that one's high expectations should be disappointed by the reality.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 133)
03:55, 16. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
There's nothing so lonely as unemployment, even if you're on a queue with a thousand others.
Her er min anmeldelse av Tørst (ekstern lenke)
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 65)
11:41, 15. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The waiter invited them to choose between the coq au vin and navarin of lamb, either of which, in other circumstances, would have been called stew.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 53)
01:18, 15. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Decision is tormet for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 26)
01:15, 15. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great cpacity for happiness.
Solveig siterer The Bookshop (Flamingo) av Penelope Fitzgerald
22:26, 4. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to matters of self-preservation.
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