Audur Ava Olafsdottir Quotes & Sayings

We say no more on the matter and she asks me to help her find a word, an adjective to qualify something that falls on mankind, although not necessarily something of a meteorological nature, like rain, but a word associated with the apocalypse of the human soul and heart, but not in any direct way, more indirectly, like rain in the soul and nature oozing tears, she explains to me. Something like the smell of a birch tree in the rain, just one word. The obstetrician claims that no word could encompass that much, no single word could ever be that big. — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

You need a cemetery to go through life — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

The summer colours have been drained from their bodies, and they've grown pale and flabby again. — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Who I am is intrinsically linked to where I am and whom I'm with. — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Where are there towns but no houses, roads but no cars, forests but no trees?
Answer on a map
(Riddle on children's breakfast TV) — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

But one needs to bear in mind that things are not always what they seem and, contrary to the dead stillness of a photograph, reality is in a state of perpetual flux. — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it's like to spend one's entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow? — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here. — Audur Ava Olafsdottir