Siri Hustvedt Quotes

“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”

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

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

“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.”

“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”

“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”

“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”