Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Linn Ullmann

Quote by Linn Ullmann

“My father had the rare ability to make others feel as though they were the one and only. That they were seen, heard, chosen. He would take you by the hand and say, Come with me, and for a brief or a long moment you might think you were the first person he has ever said this to. That it was you and him against the world.”

Quote by Linn Ullmann

Book:Unquiet

Work

Unquiet

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Linn Ullmann
Linn Ullmann

Linn Ullmann is a renowned Norwegian author born on August 9, 1966. Her works are known for their profound emotion and delicate writing, mainly exploring themes of family, love, and female identity. more

You May Also Like

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.”

“The key with a question offense is to move your freak from the emotional state to the rational one. I know I know and I know how good it feels when you’re stressed out to attack the source of that stress in what looks like a rational manner, but, um, you’re yelling, pointing your finger at me, and jumping up and down. Do you want me to react to the yelling or to the facts?”