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It’s not a wind-up, love. He really thinks like this.
Posted by Sirin on Jun 4, 2010 in Thoughts
Note to self:
Use the word ‘wee’ more often.
I have a sister,
Posted by Sirin on Mar 31, 2010 in Quotes
believe it or not.
My sister is one of the most, no wait– the most wonderful person in the world. For some reason she never ever runs out of quotes or smart little expressions. We can sit around playing Indiana Jones on our PS and then, all of a sudden, she will say stuff like “You shall down” or “when all the trees are covered in snow, the world seems black-and-white”.
She is truly astonishing.
From now on she will also be part of this blog. Please make her feel welcome. I’m looking forward to a multitude of fantastic, poetic and somewhat absurd posts.
Thank you, Nora. I love you.
October 13th 2007
In October 2007, when I was 13 years old, I wrote this in my journal:
I’ve thought a bit about the fact that I feel grown up in an increasing number of situations, and so not-grown-up in an increasing number of others. I think that we grow up in small portions at the time and after a while you’re grown in this and that. That’s when you call yourself an adult. I doubt that many people grows up in everything.
Among all this crap I’ve written through the years are these highlights. It makes me happy. Remember that this is freely translated as I wrote it in Norwegian originally.
I had to smile as I read through my journal. I wrote the quote above in London. You should see it, pages upon pages of how beautiful the parks and language and people. I enjoy the fact that I still feel the same way.
Thoughts from Narnia
Posted by Sirin on Dec 21, 2008 in Quotes
What better way to start this blog than with a key quote from Narnia:
“One word, Ma’am” Puddlegum said coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always like to know the worst and put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all these things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it, we’re just babies making up a game if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a playworld which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I am going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslans side, even if there is no Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian that I can, even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thank you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that’s a small loss if the world is as dull a place as you say.”
I love this quote!