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1 " A woman who might have been a good mother and a good grandmother, had not a quirk of nature put her in the wrong body many years ago.... What an ordeal, to have to conduct one's life in such deception, just to be able to live in peace with someone you love. Perhaps things will change on day, and people will be able to live the way they were created. "
― Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson , House of Evidence
2 " A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once. "
3 " Having a good employer and the ability to walk to work was life’s greatest happiness. "
4 " March 17, 1916. When I travel by rail between assignments, I usually go in the rearmost car; here it is called “caboose,” a word with maritime origins, meaning originally a ship’s galley. The caboose car is red in color and is where the conductor sits, also where he keeps his tools, lanterns, and flares. He can observe the whole train from a small tower that sticks up from the roof of the car. I chat with the conductor "
5 " He leaned his head on her chest and cried like a child. She hugged him and thought about this man, this human being—this woman, because she now felt in her heart that the person she held in her arms was an old, tired, grief-stricken woman. A woman who might have become a good mother and a good grandmother, had not a quirk of nature put her into the wrong body many, many years ago. "
6 " the kid can learn, but he only wants to do one thing at a time. He could spend days on end hunched over just one page of a botany book and then wouldn’t talk about anything else. Then the next week it would be astronomy. He’s become reasonably literate, though, and he’s not bad at math either. "
― Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson , The Flatey Enigma
7 " This method of cutting hair struck Kjartan as being closer to sheepshearing than hairdressing. The cutting was also proceeding slowly because the clippers were stiff and painful on Sigurbjörn’s head. "
