Hanna's Daughters Quotes

“I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but the time rushes on, so quickly that in the end it doesn't seem to exist.It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“...Then dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“Годините идваха и си отиваха, децата идваха и си заминаваха. Най-тежкото на старостта не са умората и болките в ставите. А времето, което тече толкова бързо, че накрая става нереално. След Коледа веднага идваше Великден. След ясния зимен ден, топлият слънчев.
А между тях - празнота.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“Защо мъжете правят така, че е трудно да ги обичаш?”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“...anyone expecting injustice does not keep a collection of injustices.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

“People with a lot of dead begin to lose the desire to live.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters: A Novel

“he told her folk never got over grief. It’s there to make inroads into life, taking a bit at a time away from you.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters: A Novel