Audur Ava Olafsdottir Quotes

#1. The summer colours have been drained from their bodies, and they've grown pale and flabby again.

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#2. But one needs to bear in mind that things are not always what they seem and, contrary to the dead stillness of a photograph, reality is in a state of perpetual flux.

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#3. Who I am is intrinsically linked to where I am and whom I'm with.

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#4. Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it's like to spend one's entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?

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#5. Where are there towns but no houses, roads but no cars, forests but no trees?
Answer on a map
(Riddle on children's breakfast TV)

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#6. Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

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#7. You need a cemetery to go through life

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#8. The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

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