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Top 15 Per Petterson Quotes (2025 Update)

Per Petterson Quote: “If I just concentrate I can walk into memory’s store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it...”

1. “If I just concentrate I can walk into memory’s store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it...”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “There are some things with alcohol you must never do. You must never drink alone, never drink on Sundays, never drink before seven o’clock and if you do, it has to be on a Saturday.”

2. “There are some things with alcohol you must never do. You must never drink alone, never drink on Sundays, never drink before seven o’clock and if you do, it has to be on a Saturday.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.”

3. “I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”

4. “You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.”

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

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “But that’s life. That’s what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.”

6. “But that’s life. That’s what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “Oh, well, we did have a good day out together, you and I, that doesn’t happen every day, does it?”

7. “Oh, well, we did have a good day out together, you and I, that doesn’t happen every day, does it?”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.”

8. “A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “It was as if gravity was suspended. It was like dancing, I thought, although I had never danced in my whole life. We were never to walk like that again.”

9. “It was as if gravity was suspended. It was like dancing, I thought, although I had never danced in my whole life. We were never to walk like that again.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving.”

10. “I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.”

11. “In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “Then she turns to me. ‘Tell me. How are you really?’ she says, as if there were two versions of my life, and now she is not on the verge of tears at all, but sharp-voiced as an interrogator.”

12. “Then she turns to me. ‘Tell me. How are you really?’ she says, as if there were two versions of my life, and now she is not on the verge of tears at all, but sharp-voiced as an interrogator.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “I write about families. That is who we are.”

13. “I write about families. That is who we are.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.”

14. “She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.”

15. “I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “There is nothing I need from the shop, and this is not the day for social profligacy.”

16. “There is nothing I need from the shop, and this is not the day for social profligacy.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.”

17. “I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, from one leg to the other, like a silent giant in the vast shadows against the ridge, and I did not feel like the person I had been when this day began, and I did not even know if that was something to be sorry for.”

18. “But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, from one leg to the other, like a silent giant in the vast shadows against the ridge, and I did not feel like the person I had been when this day began, and I did not even know if that was something to be sorry for.”

— Per Petterson

Per Petterson Quote: “I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.”

19. “I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.”

— Per Petterson

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