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She said if this weather didn't improve she was going to kill herself.

"Neste dag gikk jeg på biblioteket for å prøve å finne ut hva som hadde skjedd med meg. Bøker hadde aldri skuffet meg før, så kanskje de kunne gi meg noen svar denne gangen også." Slike setninger varmer et bibliotekarhjerte! ❤️

She was afraid, and her teeth began to chatter until she tightened her jaws. She saw a big car stop in front of the hospital and someone, a woman in a long coat, get into the car. She wished she were that woman and somebody, anybody, was driving her away to somewhere else, a place where she would find Scotty waiting for her when she stepped out of the car, ready to say Mom and let her gather him in her arms.

"When Harold's grandpa was sixteen years old, he set out to read the encyclopedia from A to Z. He did it, too. He finished when he was twenty. Just before he met my mama."
"Where's he now?" I asked. "What's he do?" I wanted to know what had become of a man who`d set himself a goal like that.
"He's dead."

… jeg innrettet meg etter forholdene, med denne evnen mennesket har til å tilpasse seg alle situasjoner, det er bare å se på historien, selv i de mest umenneskelige og grufulle sammenhenger tilpasser menneskene seg, innretter seg, og det, sa jeg til Clara, på grunn av min hang til svulstige uttalelser, er både den beste og den dårligste nyheten for menneskeheten, for det betyr at det holder å forandre verden for å forandre menneskene, eller iallfall flertallet av dem, og Clara hørte ikke etter, det er ikke nødvendig å forandre dem individ for individ, det ville tatt for lang tid, menneskene tilpasser seg, de holder ikke ut, de tilpasser seg.

When I first read this it came to me with the force of revelation. This is what I wanted to do with my own stories: line up the right words, the precise images, as well as the exact and correct punctuation so that the reader got pulled in and involved in the story and wouldn't be able to turn away his eyes from the text unless the house caught fire.

vulkanutbrudd på Island
jordskjelv i Florida
tyfon på Filippinene
og så har vi deg
som får lov
til å herje rundt
i leiligheten min
ødelegger vinglass
spjærer kjolen
brekker sengebeina
og når du drar
er jeg hun som går seg bort
og du han som bli meldt savnet

Well, I'm 34 now. If I don't make it by the time I'm 60, I'm just going to give myself 10 more years.

Du sökte en blomma
och fann en frukt.
Du sökte en källa
och fann ett hav.
Du sökte en kvinna
och fann en själ –
du är besviken.

"Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren´t those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they`re the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in thing and lose your head."

Great artists have a lot of woman, so if he can have a lot of women that makes him a great artist, never mind what his pictures looks like.

He pretended to himself that he`d pick up his professor around the waist, squeeze the furry grey-blue waistcoat against him to expel the breath, run heavily with him up the steps, along the corridor to the Staff Cloakroom, and plunge the too-small feet in their capless shoes into a lavatory basin, pulling the plug once, twice, and again, stuffing the mouth with toilet paper

Jeg har fortalt historia om tanna til mange. Det eneste jeg aldri har sagt noe om er hvorfor hun slo; det er så lett å misforstå. Heldigvis insisterte hun på at vi skulle dra til legen. Han sydde litt og sendte oss videre til tannlegen. Jeg kjørte selv, hun var bare 17. Tannlegen satte bedøvelse, trakk ut røttene på tanna og ga meg et brett med smertestillende.
Først etter sju uker kunne jeg kysse henne.