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A review by kayteeolson
Often I Am Happy by Jens Christian Grøndahl
5.0
Favorite quotes from Often I Am Happy:
"Tears rose to my eyes because I felt him behind me for a second, slightly bent over, slightly stooping, with a sweater tied around his shoulders, not feeling the least bit cold even though atumn had set in beyond all measure."
"I missed him as I was riding home on my bike. I miss him all the time, but it is something different that I miss about him at different times. His body next to me in bed, the sound of his steps, the familiar timbre of his voice in the familiar rooms. Without him, they're just somewhere. His way of sighing, which wasn't an expression of fatigue or despair but only, how to put it, a pneumatic effect of his composure."
"We went to movies and kissed in the light of inane narratives flickering past. We were protagonists ourselves, and I'd never felt that way before, as if my life meant something."
"You were my country, first one, then the other, and now I am stateless."
"Tears rose to my eyes because I felt him behind me for a second, slightly bent over, slightly stooping, with a sweater tied around his shoulders, not feeling the least bit cold even though atumn had set in beyond all measure."
"I missed him as I was riding home on my bike. I miss him all the time, but it is something different that I miss about him at different times. His body next to me in bed, the sound of his steps, the familiar timbre of his voice in the familiar rooms. Without him, they're just somewhere. His way of sighing, which wasn't an expression of fatigue or despair but only, how to put it, a pneumatic effect of his composure."
"We went to movies and kissed in the light of inane narratives flickering past. We were protagonists ourselves, and I'd never felt that way before, as if my life meant something."
"You were my country, first one, then the other, and now I am stateless."