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Well, Nikolas liked to think that Miika was listening, but really he was just fantasizing about cheese.
Fathers were mysteries.
His eyebrows were sliding apart like caterpillars falling out of love.
If you keep on climbing a mountain, you will eventually reach the top. That’s the thing with mountains.
“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet…But
“To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe.
“Trouble doesn’t always have to be caused. It’s sometimes already there.”
He felt properly terrified now. It was like falling while staying still.
To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole, and you feel you are falling down it and will never land. People you love make the world real and solid, and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid anymore.
Even though it was the middle of the day, it was always safe to fly over Norway, as there were still only eight people living there.
There was nothing that made him feel better than the simple act of giving.
“Sometimes,” she said, her eyes shining, “people look up to people not for who they have been, but for what they could become. For what they know they could be. They see in you something special.”
he thought all of human life—and certainly the life he remembered—was like this landscape. Dark, with occasional bursts of light.
And the moment he knew it, he felt a warm glow. It started in his tummy and spread through his whole body. It was the feeling that comes when you find out who you really are, and who you know you will be.
