Lena Anderson: “Wilful Disgrace”: 

“It turned out that a person could miss someone she had never met, except in her imagination. What she loved was not so much him as her own creation, and though she had not created him (he existed without her), the words, which were hers, now enveloped and caressed his work, which was himself” (S. 5)

“She felt very alone and completely exhausted In the course of a few hours,or since the previous Sunday when she had started to write Hugo Rask into existence within her, or as the result of a long disintegration, Ester had become a stranger to her partner. Her whole self was one huge sense of absence” (S. 8)

“She did not realize, she had crossed a boundary. The brain knows no tenses. If it has longed for something it has already had it The leap comes when we do not want to lose the future we already known” (S 16f)