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The Bee Sting

by Paul Murray

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— Jul 29, 2026 11:16AM

Jul 27, 2026 02:16PM

“The wind was in their hair; their heads were full of hash and supermarket beer; they ran so fast they became immemorial, amnesiac. They were racing above the town, away from their own stories, away from everyone who wanted to remember them; they were no one, they were together, and they were alive alive alive alive.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“Ik blijf maar op zoek naar metaforen, symbolen en beelden die de richting geven aan wat er allemaal gebeurt. Een structuur om een kloppend verhaal te maken van wat me is overkomen, zodat ik daarin kan leven - niet in die warrige werkelijkheid, maar in een roman, waar iemand de controle heeft. Dat ik achterover kan leunen, wachten op de volgende scène.”
― Nikki Dekker, Diepdiepblauw

tags: life, nederlandse-literatuur

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“Maar misschien dacht ik vooral na over wat leven was. Ik was er nog niet over uit: dagen doorbrengen in kroegen en met anderen de tijd weggooien of hard werken om de ander te bewijzen waartoe je in staat bent. Dat laatste heb ik geprobeerd. Maar het werkte niet.”
― Rajko Disseldorp, Ga niet naar het moeras

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“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

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“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

tags: existential, grief, loss, love, suffering

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