The few who still use dating apps are regretting it: they’ve become a den of animals, so-called ‘human tragedies’ and all manner of monsters. One might wonder what happened – probably nothing much; it was just the usual contemporary obsession: the idea that if an obstacle is removed, we assume all the difficulty has vanished. But love takes time

The calendar’s oddities are over; now the waiting begins again, no matter what it’s for. A time of strange, unpretentious enthusiasm

Harald V’s successor has the sort of profile you’d find in a contemporary novel: he works in creative fields and spends his time trying to work out where he might fit into the world and society, whilst focusing on the tiny little things that bring a sense of well-being

Around the twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth of the month, this character begins to feel content and hides it all behind a polite little smile. The irrepressible happiness of late summer