18 Quotes by Malin Persson Giolito

Kärleken är inte störst eller renast, den blir aldrig en perfekt blandning, bara en oren vätska. Man borde lukta på den innan man smakar. Men risken är att man ändå inte märker att den är giftig.

Ich bin clever genug, um zu wissen, wie sinnlos es ist, clever zu sein, wie wenig es bedeutet und dass es ein Problem ist.

Girls are never supposed to laugh at their own jokes. They are never supposed to talk too fast or, worse, too loudly. A girl who talks too loudly about something she’s worked out on her own might as well start practicing public urination and exposing her tits outside Parliament.

What I do believe is that everything that happens is connected to whatever happened before, like links in a chain.

There was always something else in him. It was more than sadness. It wasn’t hate; hate is simple, and Sebastian was never easy to understand. I was never afraid of what he might do to me, not even toward the end, but I was always anxious. Even those first weeks were both things, a mixture, difficult, easy and delightful, funny, awful and wonderful.

Evil doesn’t strike justly.

I can’t sleep away the pain, sleep is no savior, my dreams leave me exposed for truth.

Because greatest of all is love up until something else becomes even greater.

If they asked me to choose now, I would have read the part about emptiness. That’s the only part that’s true. Everything is empty and futile. Chasing after the wind. We never get what we want.