Per Petterson quotes - page 2

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books. (Per Petterson)
...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember. View quote
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If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it. View quote
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But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter. View quote
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Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking. View quote
Per Petterson

Per Petterson

Per Petterson - Image
Photo: GAD, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: Norwegian Novelist
Born: July 18, 1952
Quotes count: 30

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