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“If you can be heard then you exist.”
― Britt-Marie var här
― Britt-Marie var här
“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
― Britt-Marie Was Here
“A human being, any human being at all, has so perishingly few chances to stay right there, to let go of time and fall into the moment. And to love someone without measure, explode with passion... A few times when we are children, maybe, for those of us who are allowed to be... But after that? How many breaths are we allowed to take beyond the confines of ourselves? How many pure emotions make us cheer out loud without a sense of shame? How many chances do we get to be blessed by amnesia? All passion is childish, it's banal and naive, it's nothing we learn, it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us... Overturns us... It bears us away in a flood... All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe. That is the reason why passion is worth something. Not for what it gives us, but for what it demands that we risk - our dignity, the puzzlement of others in their condescending shaking heads...”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
― Britt-Marie Was Here
“Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.”
― Britt-Marie var här
― Britt-Marie var här
“The reason for her love of maps. It’s half worn away, the dot, and the red color is bleached. Yet it’s there, flung down there on the map halfway between the lower left corner and its center, and next to it is written, “You are here.”
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
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