Knots Quotes

“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are. As a rule, what you are is one simmering, endless longing.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“The lightbulb in my bathroom has blown [...] at night it's dark there in a really weird way, I can stand for ages looking at everything in there, the towels hanging from the hooks, the toothbrush in the glass, the toothpaste, the razor, the shower curtain, and it's like I'm not in the room, like I shouldn't be there, like I'm seeing things how they are when I'm not there, do you understand what I mean? And that I shouldn't be, that somehow I'm a hindrance, but that's almost why I stay there.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have tried to say; or tried to do; or everything you are. As a rule, what you are is one simmering, endless longing. And that was how this sentence struck Anna Bae's consciousness, like a quivering arrow of truth.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“impossible situations can arise on other planets too. We don’t need to think that we’re the only ones who struggle and fight.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories