Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Quotes

“It’s hard to find clothes to fit the body you have, and it’s hard to find words to fit the people you love”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“But sometimes," whispers Sonja, " things really don't work out. You see it all the time; how things don't work out at all. People suddenly maimed, broken, dead, and then things really didn't work out - or they did, they worked out terribly. And it's not supposed to happen that way, is it, that things work out terribly? Or that nothing you ever dreamed of comes to anything? The continents you wanted to explore turn out to be stripped of resources, drained and desolate. Stuntedness as far as the eye can see, and you know perfectly well that you should make the journey back to where you came from. That you have to change course and scrape yourself together, but how do you fool yourself that it was better in the place you left? The place you came from no longer exists, and I think I've lost the right to imagine my future.”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“Within her there seems to be a rattling; from little stones, from stalks, from days when it never quits. Inside her the sky empties itself in slow, unresolving fashion, and there isn’t anything worth naming in the fridge.”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“When it rains this hard, she can’t see the city she’s gone astray in”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“...Sonja had to switch off. She turned down that knob in her brain that let her take in the world at full blast...”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“It’s as if Molly’s face has acquired a barred grille, the sort you see in front of jewellery stores. She can yank down the grille in a trice, so that no one can barge in and help themselves to the wares. The technique frightens Sonja”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

“It's been ages since she's closed herself up this way, like a drying rack, but at the moment it's the only thing that can provide comfort.”
― Dorthe Nors;, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

“Small refusals and choices can make the difference between life and death ... It's the small margins that decide the outcome, and there's got to be struggle if your life's going to grow, and your life should grow, thinks Sonja, though ideally not inward. On the other hand, it's dangerous to become addicted to your life's little dramas. The city's full of drama junkies, and I'm not one of them. I'm satiated, she thinks, and she turns up Gammel Kongevej at high speed.”
― Dorthe Nors;, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

“She's standing on a side street in a capital city that won't have anything to do with her, yet she's also far away in the landscape. She's grown up and playing the part, but she's also a child who doesn't want to learn her lesson, who won't adapt, won't be like the others and think what the others think, whatever that might be. She wants to get free, utterly free, and so she has to take flight.”
― Dorthe Nors;, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

“How do you hide from people who make themselves angry just to feel alive? They're everywhere, and it's tricky making yourself invisible in a world that's as flat as a pancake.”
― dorthe nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

“Hun gik ud til sangsvanerne, og der satte hun sig som amerikaneren satte sig på Lønborg Hede: Hun afgav suverænitet, kom til sig selv, lagde menneskene bag sig og var lykkelig i sine gule træsko.”
― Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink