Olafsdottir Quotes

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

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#2. Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.

Rachel Caine

#3. 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.

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

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

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#5. My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

Ethel Waters

#6. 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?

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#7. Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

Ronald Reagan

#8. When I see my phone light up, I always hope that it's a text message from you

Subhasis Das

#9. 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)

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

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

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#11. You need a cemetery to go through life

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#12. I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

John Irving

#13. If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Tom Hodgkinson

#14. 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

Audur Ava Olafsdottir