Quotes by Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

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They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a f — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Take the sailor," he said. "he signs on to a new ship. He's surrounded by nothing but strangers. Not only do they come f — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could sati — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, a — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Loss was a night that never ended. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. I — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than a — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least onc — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven ye — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your atte — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test. — Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned