Quotes from Olga Tokarczuk

Additional senses will appear: the feeling of lack, the taste of absence, the ability for particular precognition. Knowing what won't happen. Being able to smell what doesn't exist.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.

You Know what, sometimes it seems to me we've living in a world that fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves...And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problems is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other

They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

But the truth is that anyone who feels Anger, and does not take action, merely spreads the infection.

The further north you go, the more people concentrate on themselves, and in some sort of northern madness (no doubt due to the lack of sun) they ascribe to themselves too much. They make themselves responsible for their actions.

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?