4 Quotes & Sayings By Joakim Zander

Joakim Zander is the author of the bestselling novel, The Lost City of Z, which was adapted into a movie in 2016 starring Charlie Hunnam. He is also the author of the novels The Woman with the Alabaster Box and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read more

He grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was educated at an exclusive private school. He worked for various magazines before moving to New York City in 2006 to become a staff writer for Harper's Magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Esquire, The Paris Review Daily, and other publications.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

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It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to delete whatever might be construed as ambiguity, desperation, or references to a history that he no longer had access to. Finally, he took a deep breath and hit ‘send’. Joakim Zander
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Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time. Joakim Zander
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I think I must be bleeding. I think, if I’m thinking, I must be alive. I think, my arms must be here somewhere, I can feel them under the concrete. I think, what am I holding, what am I lying on top of? Joakim Zander