Status Updates From Een vrouw in de poolnacht

“A deceptive calm lies over everything. A patch of dawn red floats in the pastel blue sky.” - page 157

“It is twelve o’clock midday when the sun rises. It rises half over the horizon, and then sets again and disappears. Only slowly and with a shudder do I grasp that this is the terrible moment when the sun has shone for us the last time this year.” - p. 86