“You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not… — Janne Teller Begin Copy Share Image
“And although we'd sworn we'd never become like them, that was exactly what was happening. We weren't even fifteen yet. Thirteen, fourteen,… — Janne Teller Fourteen Copy Share Image
Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything. — Janne Teller Began Copy Share Image
“How come you girls want to be dating?.. First you fall in love, then you start dating, then you fall out of… — Janne Teller Date Copy Share Image
“...we knew that everything was more about how it appeared than how it was. The most important thing, in any circumstance, was… — Janne Teller Appeared Copy Share Image
“Fighting's not a good idea," said Jon-Johan, and the other boys nodded, ending the discussion then and there, even though we girls… — Janne Teller Respect Copy Share Image
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature… — Janne Teller Construction Copy Share Image
Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really… — Janne Teller Busy Copy Share Image
“Alles ist egal", ruft er seiner Klasse zu. "Denn alles fängt nur an, um aufzuhören. In demselben Moment, in dem ihr geboren… — Janne Teller Time Copy Share Image
“Without knowing exactly what, I knew that the fire was something that had to do with the meaning. I decided I wasn't… — Janne Teller Fire Copy Share Image
“The rose, however, made us girls somewhat fainthearted, because it really was something we felt mattered, the white bridal dream with the… — Janne Teller Dreams Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to amount to something. Something was the same as someone, and even if nobody ever said so out loud,… — Janne Teller Discarded Copy Share Image
“The door smiled. It was the first time I'd seen it do that. Pierre Anthon left the door ajar like a grinning… — Janne Teller Door Copy Share Image
“If something's worth getting upset about, then there must be something worth getting happy about. And if something's worth getting happy about,… — Janne Teller Death and dying Copy Share Image
“Spring was nothing but a reminder to us that we, too, would soon be gone” — Janne Teller Gone Copy Share Image
“He must have gotten all that knowledge from the newspapers. I don't see the point, collecting all that knowledge others have already… — Janne Teller Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Even if you learn something and think you're good at it, there'll always be someone who's better.” — Janne Teller Better Copy Share Image
“It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how… — Janne Teller Death and dying Copy Share Image
“...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.” — Janne Teller Different people Copy Share Image
We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation. — Janne Teller Europe Copy Share Image
“We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining. And because we… — Janne Teller Cried Copy Share Image
“The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning,” he hollered. “And the reason death has no meaning is… — Janne Teller Death Copy Share Image
“The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life… — Janne Teller Death Copy Share Image
“How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important… — Janne Teller Pretending Copy Share Image
“To be sure, there were still a lot of people against us, but the very intensity of the fight over the meaning… — Janne Teller Significance Copy Share Image
