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Unquiet QUOTES

Unquiet QUOTES

1 " In order to write about real people - parents, children, lovers, friends, enemies, brothers, uncles, or the occasional passerby - it is necessary to make them fictional. I believe this is the only way of breathing life into them. To remember is to look around, again and again, equally astonished every time. "

― Linn Ullmann , Unquiet

2 " My father had the rare ability to make others feel as though they were the one and only. That they were seen, heard, chosen. He would take you by the hand and say, Come with me, and for a brief or a long moment you might think you were the first person he has ever said this to. That it was you and him against the world. "

― Linn Ullmann , Unquiet

3 " Jag vill inte dö, jag vill leva, men om hon dör finns det ingen plats för mig i den här världen. "

― Linn Ullmann , Unquiet

4 " Om man vill vara högtidlig, kan man säga att jag hade hittat hem, har han sagt, och om man vill vara lustig, kan man tala om kärlek vid första ögonkastet. "

― Linn Ullmann , Unquiet

5 " Her deepest longing, perhaps, was to be loved unconditionally, and at the same time be left in peace. But she never told anyone. It is shameful and egotistical to hope for unconditional love and at the same time want to be left in peace. The mother’s inner worlds were neatly sealed—dark, gilded worlds. "

― Linn Ullmann , Unquiet

6 " Her deepest longing, perhaps, was to be loved unconditionally, and at the same time be left in peace. But she never told anyone. It is shameful and egotistical to hope for unconditional love and at the same time want to be left in peace. "

― Linn Ullmann , Unquiet