Trinity

“MAYBE BEING LOVED is like being zoomed in on. Like someone undertaking an endless journey into you, enabling you to see all the beauty you contain. That you are an entire universe of exotic shapes, with ever-increasing copies of yourself—only with a slight twist. Like fanciful variations on a known theme from viewpoints you never even knew existed. Everyone deserves to experience such a journey at least once in their life. It’s the most beautiful thing she’s ever known. Not only have new spaces opened up in her, but it’s as if she’s been drawn in an entirely new dimension. And perhaps one day she’ll discover that this dimension is not an integer.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“Every complex number has a complex conjugated twin, which is inverted—a mirror image—along the x-axis and has the same real part. Only the imaginary part is different: the equal-size opposite. If you multiply a complex number by itself, you get another complex number. But if you multiply a complex number by its complex conjugate, you get a real number.
So it’s important to find your complex conjugated twin. And to multiply yourself by him—then the product will be real.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“They say that the art of writing a novel is to sit down and do it”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“In her mind’s eye, Rakel glimpses a little girl taking a walk with her parents. Pappa first, the little girl close at his heels. Mamma farther back, bringing up the rear. But then the little girl stops and waits to make sure that Mamma doesn’t end up too far behind. Pappa simply hurries on. So she ends up walking alone, roughly halfway between Pappa and Mamma. There’s a stretch of fifty yards or so between them.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine