Alberta and Freedom Quotes

“For her too, she had words on her lips, which died unborn, lay in her mind and turned to poison.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“Sometimes Alberta felt as if there were a conspiracy against her, as if the whole world were in agreement not to say a word. A foolish desire to shake people – But speak out, can’t you – would come over her. If she did not do so, it was because we really can remain on the verge of action for a long time without doing anything.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held one there, exerting force and discipline. Anyone married to all this was truly to be pitied.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it was not her own fault.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which habitually force us into circumstances and situations we hate and abhor.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“She laced up her shoes and put on her coat, bracing herself as she got ready to leave, trying to find that feeling of freedom which, like an intoxication, can sometimes turn walking into a dance, reminding herself that now and again one lands on small islands of joy. Of course they would get somewhere, not just Liesel, but herself too. It was already something of a feat not to be lying becalmed in quite the wrong place--and after all, this was life, life itself, irreplaceable.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom