Sigrid Undset Quote

So rich had been those years that they seemed to her now to have been one great calm — even as there seems a sort of calm on a billowy sea when one stands high enough above it on a great cliff. The waves that chase each other seem everlasting and unchanging.


The Mistress of Husaby (1921)


So rich had been those years that they seemed to her now to have been one great calm — even as there seems a sort of calm on a billowy sea when one ...

So rich had been those years that they seemed to her now to have been one great calm — even as there seems a sort of calm on a billowy sea when one ...

So rich had been those years that they seemed to her now to have been one great calm — even as there seems a sort of calm on a billowy sea when one ...

So rich had been those years that they seemed to her now to have been one great calm — even as there seems a sort of calm on a billowy sea when one ...