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“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― The Blind Assassin
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― The Blind Assassin
“Hij slikte zijn irritatie liever in. En als je dat maar vaak genoeg had gedaan, wist je op het laatst niet eens meer hoe je het zwijgen nog kon verbreken. Dan wende je eraan.”
― Het zwijgen van Maria Zachea
― Het zwijgen van Maria Zachea
“Van de mooiste dingen in het leven krijg je alleen maar meer als je ze weggeeft: vertrouwen, vriendschap, vrede.”
― De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
― De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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