5 Quotes by Karin Tidbeck

Mostly because I’ve realized what a lame teenager I was. I was always home at the stroke of midnight; I didn’t like drinking mash; I didn’t have sex. I read books and had an inferiority complex because I was afraid to do all that other stuff. I don’t know anything about being a badass punk rocker.

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

Time was an abhorrent thing, a human thing. It didn’t belong here. It was that power which made flesh rot and dreams wither.

People who hurt others are the ones with the best imagination,” Rebecka said.

In some places, time is a weak and occasional phenomenon. Unless someone claims time to pass, it might not, or does so only partly; events curl in on themselves to form spirals and circles.