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“They made one another strong, each by seeking protection in the other. She crept inside him as into a cave, and in the soft warmth of that dim retreat the hostile outer world seemed comically weak, laughable, small. The long periods between their short respites in the forester’s room had been like bridges between small, delightful islands […] they were bridges of memory–memories of a fingertip on a breast, a bite on the shoulder, a kiss on the neck, a long hand gliding down her back.”

— Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character”, Sleet: Selected Stories