Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine Quotes

“They say that the art of writing a novel is to sit down and do it”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“Jakob sends Rakel a text message that contains a link to the xkcd webcomic. The cartoon, titled “Angular Momentum,” shows a girl spinning around and around next to a bed on which her boyfriend is sitting and watching her in amazement.
“What are you doing?” his speech bubble says.
“Spinning counterclockwise. Each turn robs the planet of angular momentum, slowing its spin the tiniest bit, lengthening the night, pushing back the dawn, giving me a little more time here, with you,” answers the spinning girl.
Rakel is amused and sends Jakob a response: “Right now I’m spinning the other way, clockwise with the earth’s rotation. All in the hope of making our planet turn the tiniest bit faster, so that time will pass more quickly and it won’t be so long until I see you again.”
“Cunning—you can spin both ways” is his answer.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“the strangest thing about colors is that they impersonate the opposite of what they are. Things that look blue reflect the blue light and absorb the other colors. So anything that looks blue is actually everything but blue. Blue is exactly what it isn’t—it’s the color it doesn’t suck up, only what it throws out again.
And things that absorb all colors look black. Black carries all the colors within it, because it turns nothing away. Like black holes in space—the imprints of dead stars. Where gravity is so strong that it becomes impossible to escape once you’ve been caught. Then you’ll be pulled into the black hole in a spiraling motion. Because gravity is so strong that even time itself is stretched out and passes more slowly in the vicinity of black holes.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“Every complex number has a complex conjugated twin, which is inverted—a mirror image—along the x-axis and has the same real part. Only the imaginary part is different: the equal-size opposite. If you multiply a complex number by itself, you get another complex number. But if you multiply a complex number by its complex conjugate, you get a real number.
So it’s important to find your complex conjugated twin. And to multiply yourself by him—then the product will be real.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“that there isn’t just one kind of infinity. There is an infinity of infinities, and some infinities are more infinite than others. Mathematicians call this cardinality. The smallest kind of infinity is called aleph-null. This is the infinity you get when you take the set of all whole numbers. But it is possible to prove that there are more decimals than there are integers, so the infinity of the set of all decimals is of a greater type, called beth-one. And if you start with the set of all decimals and take the set of all subsets of this set, you get an even greater infinity known as beth-two. And you can continue to do this indefinitely.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“MAYBE BEING LOVED is like being zoomed in on. Like someone undertaking an endless journey into you, enabling you to see all the beauty you contain. That you are an entire universe of exotic shapes, with ever-increasing copies of yourself—only with a slight twist. Like fanciful variations on a known theme from viewpoints you never even knew existed. Everyone deserves to experience such a journey at least once in their life. It’s the most beautiful thing she’s ever known. Not only have new spaces opened up in her, but it’s as if she’s been drawn in an entirely new dimension. And perhaps one day she’ll discover that this dimension is not an integer.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“It’s better to be afraid than to be a burden”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“She prefers having dreams of the future to using up her dreams here and now. On one of the rare occasions she was invited to a children’s birthday party and given candy, she saved it for years. Until a white coating appeared on the sweets, and Mamma said that they had to be thrown away. This made Rakel so upset that she cried.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“ONE OF THE best things about mathematics, and part of what makes it like poetry, is that it opens new spaces for her. New spaces inside her. Abstract spaces. Spaces in higher dimensions. Infinite-dimensional spaces. Spaces where it is not necessarily possible to measure sizes and distances in the usual way. Before she started studying mathematics, she considered it a given that it is always possible to measure the distance between two points. But now she knows that this is only possible when one is in what mathematicians call metric spaces—spaces in which there is a distance measurement, what mathematicians call a metric.
Is there a human metric? Can a person be measured using letters and numbers?”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“In her mind’s eye, Rakel glimpses a little girl taking a walk with her parents. Pappa first, the little girl close at his heels. Mamma farther back, bringing up the rear. But then the little girl stops and waits to make sure that Mamma doesn’t end up too far behind. Pappa simply hurries on. So she ends up walking alone, roughly halfway between Pappa and Mamma. There’s a stretch of fifty yards or so between them.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“A frugal upbringing is the root of all ruin.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“Hun sukker. "Vi kunne blitt en fin kjærlighetsroman, tror du ikke?"
Han lar blikket hvile på henne. Lenge. De kloke Sankt Bernhardshund-øynene.
"Vi passer nok bedre i en ensomhetsroman, du og jeg." sier han til slutt.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min

“Andre folk har et liv. De glemmer. De ligger ikke under dynen som henne og samler på øyeblikk. Enda en gang er hun bare en liten flik av en annens liv. Mens han er nesten hele hennes verden.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min

“Hvordan kunne du la meg vente så lenge på deg hvis du ikke elsker meg?” hører hun seg selv si. “Vi valgte jo til og med navn på barna våre.”
“Jeg vet ikke. Jeg ville bare lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min,” sier han stille.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min

“Hvis du noen gang får valget mellom en mann som elsker deg og en mann du elsker, skal du velge han som elsker deg. Det er dette folk gjør feil i livet.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min

“Å spidde hjertet sitt på kjærlighet er også en form for selvmord.”
― Klara Hveberg, Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min

“Fraktalene er også fulle av hull i ulike størrelser, og dette gjør at de kan ha en dimensjon som ikke er et helt tall.
Et klassisk eksempel på en fraktal er Sierpinski-trekanten. Da starter man med en likesidet trekant og markerer midtpunktet på hver av sidekantene. Så forbinder man disse midtpunktene med rette streker. Da blir den opprinnelige trekanten delt i fire mindre trekanter, en i hvert hjørne og en som står på hodet i midten. Så fjerner man trekanten i midten ved å skravere den sort, så den blir et sort hull. Nå står man igjen med tre mindre kopier av den opprinnelige trekanten. Så gjentar man prosessen på hver av disse kopiene: Trekker rette streker mellom midtpunktet på sidekantene og fjerner trekanten som står på hodet i midten. Hvis man tenker seg at man fortsetter denne prosessen i det uendelige, vil man til slutt stå igjen med Sierpinski-trekanten. Den inneholder mindre kopier av seg selv på ulike nivåer og er full av hull i ulike størrelser. Dette fører til at Sierpinski-trekanten får en dimensjon som ikke er heltallig. Mens en trekant har dimensjon to, og en pyramide har dimensjon tre, vil dimensjonen til Sierpinski-trekanten være logaritmen til tre delt på logaritmen til to. Som er omtrent 1,57”
― Klara Hveberg, Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min