The Flatey Enigma Quotes

“This method of cutting hair struck Kjartan as being closer to sheepshearing than hairdressing. The cutting was also proceeding slowly because the clippers were stiff and painful on Sigurbjörn’s head.”
― Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, The Flatey Enigma

“the kid can learn, but he only wants to do one thing at a time. He could spend days on end hunched over just one page of a botany book and then wouldn’t talk about anything else. Then the next week it would be astronomy. He’s become reasonably literate, though, and he’s not bad at math either.”
― Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, The Flatey Enigma