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Category: Carsten Jensen

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn’t at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

That’s the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can’t share it.

loneliness, relationships, storytelling

With no other choices open to us, we’d turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

adventure, freedom, ocean, travel

So you’ve stopped thinking you’re going to die?Oh, I’m more certain of it than ever. But I’ve stopped being scared.

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

Now I remembered a captain’s honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

duty, honor, honour, ocean, sailing, sea

As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn’t matter that our accents were at war.

Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.

funny, humor, humour, school, teachers

He felt Miss Kristina’s presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. Inside him, a lack of willpower and a colossal tension battled it out. He felt both weak and furious at the same time. He went around with his fists clenched, ready to fight, yet what he wanted most of all was to hold and be held.