Katja

“Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

“... Als ik geen voorzitter word, pleeg ik zelfmoord!' 'Zoiets moet u niet zeggen!' Zei dokter Kazan ontzet. 'Dat zou heel slecht zijn voor mijn reputatie.”
― Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

“There is a will that exists, a desperate, continual, constantly renewed effort to place some people on a level below you, not to be on the lowest rung of the social ladder.”
― Édouard Louis, The End of Eddy

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”
― Bohumil Hrabal