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Text: Norwegian
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“We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about us if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?”
Irma Funder
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'If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognise him when he suddenly shows up.'
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'It's so hard,' said Sara all of a sudden, 'to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future, about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it. Except for children. Or idiots. Or sick people who have some kind of chronic pain that's always with them. And most of the time we're worrying about something.'
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We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house and divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about us if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace.
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A guest in my house makes me feel like a prisoner. I can't get up and leave when I want to.
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All my life I've measured people by what they ought to be, not by what they actually are.
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There in the kitchen, in the yellow-green light, at the age of six, I lost my freedom.
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Women are strange, thought Andreas. It's as if they can smell that something is up. Or maybe they just look at things in a different way from men. Because they have more enemies, maybe that's it. To be a woman and have to be on guard all the time, what a fucking strain that must be!
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And what is a friend? Someone to spend time with, without too much discomfort? Because I don't really care for her that much. If she died I'd be extremely upset, but at the same time a lot would be over and done with. Grieve for her? That's not how I'd feel. It's good to be done with things.
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I think back to that terrifying moment when I felt it coming, the desire to destroy him. At the same instant I saw my own face reflected in a windowpane. And I remember the feeling, a sweet pressure, like warm oil running through my body. The certainty that this was evil. My face in the bluish glass. The hideous, evil person you become when the Devil holds the candle.
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You didn't get the son you wanted, thought Skarre. No-one ever does. My father didn't either.
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The courthouse.
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This is book 4 of 11 in Inspector Sejer Mysteries. (standard series)
Preceded by He Who Fears the Wolf, and followed by The Indian Bride.
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- The Gumshoe Award (2007: European Crime Novel)
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- Dewey: 839.82374
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