Liesbeth

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Everything was too quiet to be natural. It seemed as if the silence was rising, rising—would suddenly brim over and break into laughter.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark