“Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother’s childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.”
Tove Ditlevsen was a Danish poet known for her profound lyrical poetry. Her works often explore themes of loneliness, love, and death, and have been beloved by readers. more
“Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger.”
“Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.”
“Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.”
“There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.”