285 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt


  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.''Don't you have a photograph?''Photographs!' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    Loss.A known absence.If you didn't know it,it would be nothing, which it is, of course,a nothing of another kind,as acutely felt as a blister,but a tumult, too, in the region of the heart and lungs, an emptiness with a name: You

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    Om jag inte kände det jag känner när jag ser dig skulle du vara någon annan. Det vore hemskt. Om jag inte mindes att jag älskar dig, menar jag. (190)

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Siri Hustvedt
  • Quote

    Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.

  • Tags
  • Share