10 Quotes by Audur Ava Olafsdottir

We need to calculate the damage caused by the people who profit from war and make them pay for it ... That way they would understand that war is much more expensive than peace. In any case, the only language they understand is money.

Who I am is intrinsically linked to where I am and whom I'm with.

It’s better than anything either Laxness or Thórberger Thordarson write. We might be talking about a new Nobel Prize winner, Hekla.”“Has he had anything published?”“Not yet.

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

Dalla mia coscienza alle tue labbra c'è un oceano insormontabile.

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

There are so many voices in the world and none of them is without meaning.

The summer colours have been drained from their bodies, and they've grown pale and flabby again.

Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it’s like to spend one’s entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?