Oliver

“You never know in life. Sometimes people can mean what they say.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, China

“Shuggie heard the nurse say to a male attendant that she thought for sure Agnes was a working girl. “She is not,” said Shuggie, quite proudly. “My mother has never worked a day in her life. She’s far too good-looking for that.” The matted mink coat gave her an air of superiority, and her black strappy heels clacked out a slurred beat on the long marble hallway.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“Het unieke van de Europese beschaving is dat deze wakker gekuste rede vervolgens in het reine moest zien te komen met een openbaring die de absolute waarheid pretendeerde te zijn. Wat dat betreft is het epicentrum van de Europese geschiedenis gelegen in de verhandelingen van de kerkvaders, die zich de opdracht hadden gesteld om hun ongeloofwaardige geloof met redeneringen van surrealistische schoonheid salonfähig te maken voor de heidense intelligentsia door het in harmonie te brengen met de illustere verworvenheden van de Griekse filosofie.”
― Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa

“Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been.”
― neil price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings