“I didn't expect you to have learnt to smile yet. When one is born, one only knows how to cry. It's only very gradually that one learns to smile.”

Hólmfríður
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland

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Icelandic author 1902–1998

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