Strega Quotes

“They wished us ill, and they wished us well. No person is ever just one thing.”
― Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega

“There came a day when we were to make dumplings. We filled them with dark berries. We filled them with meat. We lowered them into boiling water. Watched them sink to the bottom only to come rushing back to the surface, like drowning schoolboys full of desperation. The perforated ladle scooped them up and rescued them to a hand-painted plate of thick porcelain. A complicated pattern of roses and insects. I imagined the hand that had painted the plate. Thin and bony and with red-painted nails.”
― Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega

“It’s humiliating, I thought, to live in this body.”
― Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega

“Hun åbnede munden og smagte på den væske, som dryppede fra månen.”
― Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega