The Danish Girl Quotes

“Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“And wasn't that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?"
"Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn't believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Nació en un páramo. Era un niñita nacida envuelta en un cuerpo de niño en un páramo”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“There was a terrible stretch of time in Einar's life - from the time Hans left Bluetooth until the day he met Greta at the academy - when he lived without anyone to reveal his secrets to. Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were read with coals.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Lili chiuse gli occhi (li sentiva così pesanti sotto lo strato di cipria!) e pensò a Copenhagen come a una città dove lei e Einar potevano vivere entrambi come una stessa persona.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“Greta must have noticed his discomfort, because she reached out and held Einar’s cheeks and said, “It means nothing.” And then, “When will you stop worrying about what other people think?”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“He realized that Lili and he shared something: a pair of oyster-blue lungs; a chugging heart; their eyes, often rimmed pink with fatigue. But in the skull it was almost as if there were two brains, a walnut halved: his and hers.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

“And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl