The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind..

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind….

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats fo….

We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another any….

There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, ….

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. Whi….

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understoo….

The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don….

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease..

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen..

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla.

I'm no expert on types of cars. As far as i'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out into the str….

Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time..

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself,….

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn..

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost..

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doe….

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also ….

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but ag….

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are qu….

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning..