Pien M

“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

“I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where there being ends and someone else's starts. With there roots tangled and caught up underground, linked to fungi and bacteria, trees harbour no such illusions. For us, everything is interconnected.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

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

“Is there a satisfaction in the effort of remembering that provides its own nourishment, and is what one recollects less important than the act of remembering? That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men