Danish short-story writer.
"Her finely crafted stories, set in the past and pervaded with an aura of supernaturalism, incorporate the themes of Eros and dreams."
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
"The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea."
"But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we have put up no obstacles at all. The great strength is in you . . ."
