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“Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. No matter where we go, our love will stretch out to hold us, and that makes me feel like … like everything will be okay.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“We kunnen veel overwinnen, maar we kunnen het door onze menselijke conditie nooit winnen van de tijd”
― Yuki Kempees, Meer dan me lief is

“So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“If I had to pick one person to be in my corner, it’d be you. Every time.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Maar helaas wint mijn familie goud op het onderdeel 'liefhebben', dus kan ik slechts mezelf de schuld geven”
― Yuki Kempees, Cirkels zijn alleen mooi als ze rond zijn

“Je zit stampvol kauwgomballenromantiek. Je gooit er bij jou een euro in en er rolt liefde uit. Jammer dat het snoepgoed altijd snel zijn smaak verliest”
― Yuki Kempees, Cirkels zijn alleen mooi als ze rond zijn

“The past is so much less terrifying than the future. Even the most terrible era of the past is at least knowable. It can be studied. The world survived it. But in the present, one never knows when the whole world could come to a terrible, crashing end.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Ook dat is vriendschap. Iemand de tijd gunnen, iemand de ruimte geven. Wachten tot iemand er klaar voor is, ook als je vreest dat hij er misschien nooit klaar voor zal zijn.”
― Splinter Chabot, als de Hemel genoeg ruimte heeft

“Waren we gelukkig terwijl het verdriet me al aankeek, zich al in mijn lichaam manifesteerde. Misschien was het inderdaad zo dat geluk en ongeluk zo dicht bij elkaar lagen dat het één zelden zonder het ander kwam.”
― Splinter Chabot, als de Hemel genoeg ruimte heeft

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“You don't stop bullshitting because you are old," she says.
"You get old because life's bullshit," I say.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“De wereld beschrijven is eenvoudiger dan er een plek in vinden.”
― Philip Huff, Wat je van bloed weet

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Hey police? I just saw the world's oldest, slowest kid climbing into Pleasantview Cemetery. Looked like he was dying to get in. Yeah, looked like a grave matter to me. Kidding? Oh no, I'm in dead earnest. Maybe you ought to dig into it.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can’t even remember who he is. “Where am I?” he asks, desperate, and then, “Who am I? Who am I?”
And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the voice is originating inside his own head, Willem’s whispered incantation. “You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You’re the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs.
“You’re a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; you volunteer for a food kitchen.
“You’re a swimmer. You’re a baker. You’re a cook. You’re a reader. You have a beautiful voice, though you never sing anymore. You’re an excellent pianist. You’re an art collector. You write me lovely messages when I’m away. You’re patient. You’re generous. You’re the best listener I know. You’re the smartest person I know, in every way. You’re the bravest person I know, in every way.
“You’re a lawyer. You’re the chair of the litigation department at Rosen Pritchard and Klein. You love your job; you work hard at it.
“You’re a mathematician. You’re a logician. You’ve tried to teach me, again and again.
“You were treated horribly. You came out on the other end. You were always you.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Onwetendheid is de luxe van de dood, voor de levenden is het een belachelijke smoes om niet ten volle te moeten leven.”
― Dimitri Verhulst, Hebben en zijn

“Het werken aan doelen die nooit behaald worden, is niet per definitie zinloos.”
― Dimitri Verhulst, Hebben en zijn

“Het doet er voor ons niet toe hoeveel wegen u neemt. Wij houden hier ons enkel bezig met de eindbestemming.”
― Dimitri Verhulst, Hebben en zijn