“To walk home alone at night is a disaster, in novels. Some girls confuse the state of being in love and being lonely, and think they are the former when in fact they are the latter; in love with everyone and no one, just because they are without a man.”

—  Halldór Laxness, book The Atom Station

Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

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