For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. - Karl Ove Knausgård

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

If you really love me, you have to come to me without demands, I thought but didn’t say, I wanted her to notice on her own.

Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they say something about what life is about, what it is to be a human here on earth.