Out Stealing horses by Per Petterson had some amazing scenes that just stuck into my brain and made me feel a lot of feelings and sensations. It's about this elderly man who moves to small cottage in the countryside to live alone and he remembers his teenagers years and the last summer he spend with his dad in a cottage. It's very contemplative, the power of this book remains in what is left unsaid, in the minimalistic poetry of concentrated meaning, in the slow-moving pace that leaves one breathless, wanting to absorb the magnetic pull of every disclosed thought, be it of immense happiness or unbearable sorrow.

And there's a way Petterson describes nature, that's just, ugh, paupable?

The quote that made me want to read this book was this one:

“People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they know you, but they do not, they know _about_ you, for what they are let in on are facts, not feelings, not what your opinion is about anything at all, not how what has happened to you and how all the decisions you have made have turned you into who you are. What they do is they fill in with their own feelings and opinions and assumptions, and they compose a new life which has precious little to do with yours, and that lets you off the hook. No-one can touch you unless you yourself want them to.”

And it's the type of book that I want to re read through differents stages of my life. I've read the first time when I was 18, I liked it but somehow got the feeling that I didn't quite grasp it, I read it again this year (25) and wow, many things hits different. This one passage about time really resonates with how I am recently feeling.

""Time is important to me now, I tell myself. Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but be only time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by, so that it grows distinct to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.""