Status Updates From Alberte og friheten

"And something dawned on her. All the pain, all the vain longing, all the disappointed hope, all the anxiety and privation, the sudden numbing blows that result in years going by before one understands what happened - all this was knowledge of life."

"Hope, the untiring, again put out surface roots into nowhere, in spite of everything. The pain could not go on forever, nor did it. This evening she seemed to recognize that everything comes to an end, even pain. It burns itself out finally. One dies of it, or it passes out of one's system like an ache that is over. All that is left is a calcification in the mind, a hard scar, that cannot be affected again."

"Nothing is incurable, everything passes."

"Money in your pocket makes your step light. It is a sort of credential, giving one again the right to exist and look people in the eyes, to do things that increases one's well being and self-respect: to ask about prices, choose foodstuffs, take them home and eat them, pay debts, smarten oneself up."

Det är kanske öndå något frånstötande med henne

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Ska inte ljuga börja ledsna rejält på alberte är i en sjuk reading slump :(
Också spoiler det kan verkligen finnas fler veigårds i danmark som varit i paris det behöver inte vara han som blivit krossad av en lastbil men igen jag är inte så bra på danska kan ha missförstått

"She heard herself laugh an entirely new little laugh, sensed something she had never sensed before in gesture and movement. It streamed from within her, forcing its way out, whether she wished it or not."

I love this so effing much!

Back to Scandinavia ✨

Very existential! It is almost as if one is floating along in Alberta's company on the streets of Paris, its restaurants and little tiny attic rooms filled with mice.

Am sat in a restaurant in rainy Oslo having just finished eating reindeer for the first time (it was delicious btw) and reading this wonderful novel. Heaven. Oh and just found the last in the trilogy in a bookshop here so can just keep on going...

It should be quite clear from the image I just added to my review of this novel how fab its author is. Take a second to look at it. How can you not want to read something a woman like that wrote?