Kate van der Borgh > Quotes

“Some people say we're our true selves when we think nobody is watching. But how do we know our own identities without others' confirming gaze?”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“Music is like pain. You forget what it was to experience it in the moment. You only know that there was no such thing as time, and your whole self was splintered into fragments, connected to everything that ever mattered and that ever would.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“Some people say we’re our true selves when we think nobody is watching. But how do we know our own identities without others’ confirming gaze?”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“With friends, we say I love him, but not I am in love with him. And yet, can we not experience platonic love as total immersion?”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“Nobody wants the truth. We're not built for it. Anyway, whose truth? You think other people know you better than you know yourself? Their version of you is just that: a version.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“But plenty of truths defy physical evidence.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“presume most Lovers don’t realize that’s what they are. And maybe it’s worse to be The Loved, knowing that you don’t feel that intense passion that you’re supposed to feel. Yeah, The Loved get all the adoration, but they get the guilt too.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“In telling the stories of our lives—in replaying the music of our past—there is interpretation.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“Nobody is afraid of the past. What we're afraid of is the past coming loose.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear

“My mum used to talk about every relationship having ‘The Lover and The Loved.’ One who does all the loving, and one who soaks it all up.”
― Kate van der Borgh, And He Shall Appear