It is justice, not love, that will one day give life to the children of the future. The battle for justice is the one thing which gives human life ra… - Halldór Laxness

Never did these thanes of hell escape their just deserts. No one ever heard of Harekur or Gongu-Hrolfur or Bernotus being worsted in the final struggle. In the same way no one will be able to say that Bjartur of Summerhouses ever got the worst of it in his world war with the country's specters, no matter how often he might tumble over a precipice or roll head over heels down a gully - "while there's a breath left in my nostrils, it will never keep me down, no matter how hard it blows."

The first thing is to have the will; the rest is technique.

It is anything but easy trying to speak of a person one knows so little about but who is nevertheless so close to me.