There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.

- Vendela Vida

When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

- Vendela Vida

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

- Vendela Vida