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The Summer Without Men

Siri Hustvedt

The Summer Without Men

Siri Hustvedt

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Famous Siri Hustvedt Quotes

“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”

Siri Hustvedt

Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

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

Siri Hustvedt

Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

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

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

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

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

“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.”

Siri Hustvedt

Source: The Blindfold

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

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

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

Siri Hustvedt

Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

“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.”

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

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