Störst av allt Quotes

“death is just a single heartbeat away from life,”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Kärleken är inte störst eller renast, den blir aldrig en perfekt blandning, bara en oren vätska. Man borde lukta på den innan man smakar. Men risken är att man ändå inte märker att den är giftig.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Living happily ever after with the person you love only works in books; “ever after” is only long enough if you’re fictional. And love can’t rescue anyone into eternal life.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“People always think they know what the dead would have wanted.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“greatest of all is fear, the terror of dying. Love means nothing when you believe you’re going to die.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“And no one asked me, Do you want to? Can you? Or said, We will help you, you can't do this all by yourself. Because everyone knew this was the only option. There was only me.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Only idiots pretend that who you are and what you do don’t matter.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“There is only one thing my body remembers more clearly than how much I wanted him and that is how it felt when he was gone.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Love? No, I don’t miss love. Love is not greatest or purest, it’s never a perfect blend, just an impure liquid, the kind you should really sniff before you taste. But the risk is you still might not notice it’s poisonous.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Because greatest of all is love up until something else becomes even greater.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“As I lay there in Sebastian’s hospital bed and the two of us cried, I wanted to light up the world for him, show him what he meant, come with him, to him, for him. Oh, shit, you’re thinking, but that’s only because you know what happened later. But right then, no one knew anything. And no one asked me, Do you want to? Can you? Or said, We will help you, you can’t do this all by yourself. Because everyone knew this was the only option. There was only me. No one asked if I wanted to save Sebastian, but you all blame me for failing.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“I couldn’t help him, I couldn’t, how could I? Sorry. How do you tell a person not to want to die? I will love you when no one else has the strength to. I promise. I will never leave you alone again.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“if you just expose terrible things, make them visible, they stop being terrible. But in reality, with truly awful things, the opposite is true. Too much sunshine and “truth” and “speaking out” and “putting your feelings into words” and “daring to talk about your problems” helps people see what a monster you are. Your ugly emotions become as glaring as hairy warts.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“There was always something else in him. It was more than sadness. It wasn't hate; hate is simple, and Sebastian was never easy to understand. I was never afraid of what he might do to me, not even toward the end, but I was always anxious. Even those first weeks were both things, a mixture, difficult, easy and delightful, funny, awful and wonderful.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Soy lo bastante lista como para entender lo inútil que es ser lista, lo poco que significa y el hándicap que supone.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“The value of a human life is absolute, blah-blah-blah…eternal, constant, fixed, we are all the same, blah-blah-blah. Hitler’s life is worth the same as Mother Teresa’s. But not Sebastian. He knew. Sebastian grew up in a house with its own white-sand beach brought in by plane and boat from a former French colony. How could he have pretended to be anything but a god, equal to no one, superior to everything? Every single day of Sebastian’s life witnessed to the truth: He was worth more than everyone else. Money is easier to understand than all the philosophical drivel about the absolute value of a human life. Sebastian’s problem was that he also knew his worth depended on his dad. Without his dad he was no one.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“I can’t sleep away the pain, sleep is no savior, my dreams leave me exposed for truth.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“What I do believe is that everything that happens is connected to whatever happened before, like links in a chain.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Evil has no meaning. That is the very definition of evil. But just because something hurts doesn’t mean that the reason for the pain is evil.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“If they asked me to choose now, I would have read the part about emptiness. That’s the only part that’s true. Everything is empty and futile. Chasing after the wind. We never get what we want.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Evil doesn’t strike justly.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“So I don’t talk about my nightmares, or about what I’m afraid of. I no longer believe that it will make the evil go away. Superstition is no cure for reality. Hypochondriacs contract fatal diseases at the same rate as everyone else.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Girls are never supposed to laugh at their own jokes. They are never supposed to talk too fast or, worse, too loudly. A girl who talks too loudly about something she’s worked out on her own might as well start practicing public urination and exposing her tits outside Parliament.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“I no longer believe that I can stave off catastrophes by putting them into words.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“But I think you were trying to make a different point, Samir. To say that there is a limit to how unequal a society can become and continue to remain a stable democracy.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Ho letto da qualche parte che ‘la verità è ciò a cui scegliamo di credere’. Se possibile, pare una frase ancora più folle. Si può decidere cos’è vero e cos’è falso? Le cose possono essere sia vere che inventate a seconda della persona a cui le chiedi? E se qualcuno di cui ci fidiamo dice una cosa, be’, possiamo semplicemente decidere di credergli? Possiamo ‘scegliere che sia vero’? Come si può anche solo pensare una cosa così idiota? Se una persona mi dicesse che ‘sceglie di credermi’, capirei subito che in realtà è convinta che sia tutta una menzogna ma che accetta di fare finta che sia vero.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Ich bin clever genug, um zu wissen, wie sinnlos es ist, clever zu sein, wie wenig es bedeutet und dass es ein Problem ist.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“«Por siempre jamás» solo es un tiempo suficientemente largo si eres un personaje inventado. Y el amor no le da la vida eterna a nadie.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Nadie me preguntó si quería salvar a Sebastian, pero todo el mundo me culpa de no haberlo conseguido.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Las chicas nunca deben reírse con sus propias bromas. Nunca tienen que hablar deprisa ni, peor aún: alto. A una chica que habla demasiado sobre cosas que ha averiguado por cuenta propia solo le falta ponerse a mear en público y enseñar las tetas delante del parlamento. «Hormonas femeninas, menstruales, adolescentes».”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt