Quotes By Author: Siri Hustvedt

“I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”

“We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can’t wash it off.”

“We chart delusions through collective agreement.”

“Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”