Quotes by : Per Petterson

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same.....

I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and....

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp,....

All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it....

...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever,....

You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have....