The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am Quotes

“I've knitted myself a hat, it's plum red with an appealing lace pattern, I figured that a few air holes would be nice now that it's spring. I put it on and feel like a cranberry in the snow, and I wonder if they can see me from the moon. Me and the Great Wall.”
― Kjersti A. Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“The breeze is cold and refreshing, I draw the night into my lungs and try to calm myself down.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“I used to read the obituaries to gloat over all the people I've outlived, but now I don't think it matters, we all live for just a moment anyway.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Buna değer mi bilmiyorum, hayat yaşamaya değer mi bilmiyorum. Bunu ölmeden önce bilemem, büyük olasılıkla öldükten sonra da bilemem.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“...at least I know how to act when I'm home, whereas I have no idea how to act in a room of people.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“...and yet I'm still sitting here in my apartment and I'm just as afraid of living life as I am of dying.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“So, Epsilon and I got a Dalmatian instead. We argued back and forth about whether his name would be Black or White. "Why not something a little less racist," I suggested.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“I just love animals," I said.

"Almost as much as Hitler did.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Sometimes you've got to be generous in marriage. It's a matter of give or take.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“But I don't like mingling with people," I said, "I like mingling with you."

"Yes, I noticed," Epsilon said.

"So you should feel special," I said.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Lots of people think we have eyebrows to keep the sweat out of our eyes, but actually it's so we can communicate with other people.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Every joyful hour in life is paid for with strife.' Despite the depressing sentiment, at least this one rhymes.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“The good thing about the library is that, if it looks like someone's going to talk to me, I can put my finger over my lips and hush them.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“It's an exaggeration to say I'm waking up because I think I never fell asleep, and if I fell asleep, I dreamed that I was awake and couldn't sleep.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Bir yerlerde dünyada şu anda yaşayan insanların sayısının şimdiye dek ölenlerin sayısını geçtiğini okuduğumu haırlıyorum ve ne zaman ölenlerin sayısının yaşayanları geçeceğini merak ediyorum... Durum böyleyse bugün ölü olmak yaşıyor olmaktan daha özel bir şey olmalı.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Salona gidiyorum, duvardan duvara yeşil halının üzerinde duruyorum. Bu halıyı bize içeride çimen duygusu versin diye almıştık. Alır almaz tavanı da maviye boyamamızı önerdim, ama Epsilon bunun yerine dışarı çıkabileceğimizi söyledi.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“...van, hogy az ember maga kell hogy értelmet adjon az értelmetlenségnek. Rendszerint ez a helyzet.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Danas je dovoljno da smisliš dobar slogan za čokoladu da bi otišao u svemir. Sad je to tako lako. A čitala sam da je čovek, kad otputuje u svemir, mlađi nego što bi bio da je ostao na zemlji, jer je vreme relativno. Jedan dan sa Epsilonom nije na primer isti kao dan bez njega.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Każdy człowiek ma unikalne DNA. Dobrze jest myśleć, że jestem unikalna, lecz wtedy zdaję sobie sprawę, że każdy Chińczyk też jest.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

“Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that.”
― Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am