Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing. - Tove Ditlevsen
Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.
- Tove Ditlevsen
[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do… - Tove Ditlevsen
[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do…
I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot. - Tove Ditlevsen
I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.
Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own. - Tove Ditlevsen
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. - Tove Ditlevsen
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely. - Tove Ditlevsen
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.
my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up. - Tove Ditlevsen
my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.
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