Anna > Anna's Quotes

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“You can’t be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

“...and we do decide for ourselves when it will hurt.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“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 physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“I'm sorry I laughed...I know it isn't funny for you. It was incredibly stupid of me to laugh. Does it hurt a lot anywhere?
'Not really,' I said.
'Only a bit in your soul?'
'Maybe a bit.'
'Let it sink,' he said. 'Just leave it. You can't use it for anything.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses