Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you — Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
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Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.

— Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
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