The Seventh Child Quotes

“Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“shit’s burning so close to you that your ass is on fire.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.”
― Erik Valeur, Det syvende barn

“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses. It’s the body and its longing that bends the mind and teaches the eye to calculate the distance to one’s desires so often out of reach.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“«El Destino es la única fuerza que importa, y se lleva a los hijos de los hombres cuando le place», solía”
― Erik Valeur, El séptimo niño

“«En la vida puede ocurrir que veas algo que no entiendes, y no tengas a nadie con quien compartirlo.»”
― Erik Valeur, El séptimo niño

“finally told her son the gruesome truth about his life. I could have told them about the feeling of not knowing your roots, and about the angst you suffer when you discover you will be forever denied access to it. It’s a feeling we know better than anyone else.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“It’s because those events never really become wounds or scars on the surface, but parts of you deep down inside,” he said, answering his own question. “You can’t see them with the naked eye, but they nevertheless shape the way you move and everything you say and do—until the day you die.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“But leaves don’t just fall. They wilt and fade and no longer protect you from the rain.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“I think that…it’s in the past. Everything becomes history if you are patient enough. And if you don’t dig everything up again.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“While there are those who say that while God and the Devil seem to be created in the image of men, Fate in all its capriciousness, is the feminine counterpoint to those two gruff gentlemen.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“Why is it that the wounds we are afflicted with early in life don’t disappear? Whether they are caused by abuse or humiliation or loneliness?”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“The damage that most people suffer, through the process we refer to as childhood, is from a lack of self-esteem. It’s by far the most dangerous epidemic among us.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“Being a single mother without a husband was considered shameful in all”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn’t tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“He remembered the Professor’s advice to his eager employees during his first year: “With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world of television, there are only seven feelings: well-being, Schadenfreude, sentimentality, shock, outrage, disgust, and anger. Nothing else.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“would”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“naïveté”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“shoulders. Later, he’d”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation.”
― Erik Valeur, Det syvende barn