In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.
I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books. - Per Petterson
I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.
- Per Petterson
If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it. - Per Petterson
If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because … - Per Petterson
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because …
...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really no… - Per Petterson
...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really no…
Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with phys… - Per Petterson
Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with phys…
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more … - Per Petterson
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more …
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room. - Per Petterson
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards… - Per Petterson
But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards…
I write about families. That is who we are. - Per Petterson
I write about families. That is who we are.
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