pickI opened this book because I wanted to learn about Liv and Ingmar but I encountered so much more: a lively and honest voice sharing accomplishments and doubts, a strong woman who cut her own path through the forest of life, including the tangle of single motherhood and Hollywood. I'm looking forward to reading her follow-up memoir, Choices.
The Knopf edition I read was beautifully designed by Camilla Filancia.
'I wanted to open my arms and embrace it all, but because my fear that it would never be mine was so great, it never became mine.'
'I sit by the window and look down at the beach below. Smile and think of another evening spent with one I loved under a spruce tree because we had nowhere else to go. Our clothes were covered with moss and grass and we laughed and were happy and alone in the world.'
'A year in Oslo, where the first few months of loneliness are what I remember best. Where not being able enough, talented enough, was the big sorrow.... An apartment twelve feet square. Days without structure. Long nights filled with bad dreams.... I had the library as a fixed point every day. Hours spent with accurate notes on what I read. Large, silent rooms. A place to be, a place to belong.'
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