Quote by Carsten Jensen

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed…

— Carsten Jensen

“Your roots aren’t to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It’s he who provides your link to the world,…

— Carsten Jensen

“From now on, consider yourself a con artist.”

— Carsten Jensen

“Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now…

— Carsten Jensen

“...the miller's hefty wife, Madam Weber, already armed with a pitchfork, insisted on joining the fight, and because she appeared more intimidating than most…

— Carsten Jensen

“You died in the end, but you fought first.”

— Carsten Jensen

“But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the…

— Carsten Jensen

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

— Carsten Jensen

“Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your…

— Carsten Jensen

“That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.”

— Carsten Jensen

“Freedom had a thousand faces. But so did crime. The thought of what a man might do made me dizzy.”

— Carsten Jensen

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

— Carsten Jensen