“ She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people sometimes call ‘the… Jostein Gaarder
“ She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hat… Jostein Gaarder
“ I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have. Jostein Gaarder
“ The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their… Jostein Gaarder
“ Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person. Jostein Gaarder
“ But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing. Jostein Gaarder
“ Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry. Jostein Gaarder
“ Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of the universe is merely a necessary external mat… Jostein Gaarder
“ But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds? Jostein Gaarder
“ The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to study. That would have been about as daft as standing on tip-toe to get a better pictu… Jostein Gaarder
“ But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance. Jostein Gaarder
“ I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's an extraordinary thought. It's mind-boggling just to think about the existence… Jostein Gaarder
