Oliver

“People say time is a great healer. They're wrong. Time is simply a great eraser. It rolls on and on regardless, eroding our memories, chipping away at those great big boulders of misery until there's nothing left but sharp little fragments, still painful but small enough to bear.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

“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

“Ge denkt immers dat ge vanalles begrijpt en hoe ouder ge wordt, hoe meer ge dat denkt. Maar keer op keer vergist ge u, zowel nu als toen. Ge vergist u voortdurend in de mens, in zowel uzelf als elk ander.”
― Jeroen Olyslaegers, Wildevrouw

“There is too much world, so it's better to concentrate on particulars, rather than the whole.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights