A Shining Quotes

“And I stay where I’m standing. And I look up and I see that the stars aren’t visible anymore, there are clouds covering the stars and everything has gotten much darker. Now the moon is half covered by clouds, I see, and I see clouds moving, covering the whole moon, and then it’s totally dark, and I can barely see my mother and father anymore. They’ve disappeared into the darkness, they’re both totally covered in darkness now. And I’m alone in the darkness again, exactly like I was before. I can’t see anything. And my parents, they were here just now, I saw them, I did. They were here. But where did they go. Well obviously they just disappeared into the darkness, they’re not visible now the way nothing is visible when it gets dark enough, black enough.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“She says: but why would you bring me so far into the forest when you don’t know the way out.

He says: it was you who brought me into the forest.

She says: yes, I guess it was—and it’s silent. Then she says: well, we did it together—and he doesn’t answer and I stand there looking at them.

And they look so old, they look so tired, how can they have aged so much in such a short time, because it hasn’t been that long since I last saw them, or maybe it has been a long time, maybe it’s been years, or maybe it’s been just a few months, or a few weeks, a few days, because it’s definitely been more than a few hours, that’s for certain.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“I went and got my car stuck on a forest road, far away from any people, and I can’t get it free, so that means I have more than enough to keep me busy, yes, busy is what they call it, busy getting the car unstuck.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“Yes, well, now I’m here, I thought, now I’m sitting here, and I felt empty, as if the boredom had turned into emptiness. Or maybe into a kind of anxiety, because I felt something like fear as I sat there empty, looking straight ahead as if into a void. Into nothingness. What am I talking about, I thought. There’s the forest in front of me, it’s just a forest, I thought. All right then, this sudden urge to drive off somewhere had brought me to a forest. And there was another way of talking, according to which something, something or another, led, whatever that might mean, to something else, yes, something else. I peered into the forest in front of me. Forest. Yes. Trees right next to one another, pines, pine trees.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“Digo: ¿quién eres? La criatura dice: soy la que soy.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, ja das ist wohl auch irgendwie wirklich, ja man begreift es wohl auch irgendwie. Aber es hat doch nichts zu bedeuten.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“And I’ve never understood why I do things like this.”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining