Until Thy Wrath be Past Quotes

“You never come closer to owning the whole world than when you wake up before everyone else. There”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath Be Past

“Les bouleaux sont fins et malingres. au sud de la Suède, les arbres à membres fins commencent à fleurir. Les magnolias et les cerisiers, comme des jeunes filles endimanchées dans les parcs. Les boulots ici sont fins, oui, mais n'ont rien de jeunes filles. Noueux, hirsutes et courbés comme de vieilles Laponnes, ils guettent le printemps à la lisière de la forêt.”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath be Past

“sometimes think that if you recall a situation in which you were really depressed, you feel all the sorrow flooding back when you think about it. And if you recall a situation in which you were really happy, the happiness comes back to you. But if your memory of a situation fills you with anxiety, the feelings you had don’t come back, no matter what. It’s as if your brain simply goes on strike. It’s not going to go back there. You can only remember what it was like. You can’t experience how it felt.” Depressed? Hjalmar thinks. Sorrow? Happiness?”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath Be Past

“Spare me from ending up in a dayroom with worn-out, incontinent old folk. Spare”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath Be Past

“Don’t they say that all the people in your dreams are really yourself?”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath Be Past

“It’s when I feel . . . how shall I put it? . . . maybe open is the right word. A human being is something special. There’s more to us than we realize. And Mother Earth is more than just a lump of dead rock. She’s also alive. If there’s a dead body lying somewhere in the countryside, you can feel it when you reach the place. The trees know, and vibrate with the knowledge. The stones know. The grass. They create an atmosphere. And we can perceive it if we just . . .” He shrugged as a way”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath Be Past

“It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.”
― Åsa Larsson, Until Thy Wrath Be Past