Sanne Verdoes

“it is a grave error to imagine that the world is not preparing for the disrupted planet of the future. It’s just that it’s not preparing by taking mitigatory measures or by reducing emissions: instead, it is preparing for a new geopolitical struggle for dominance.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

“What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“Among those who have everything, I have never seen a family go to the seashore just to celebrate a political decision, because for them politics changes almost nothing. This is something I realized when I went to live in Paris, far away from you: the ruling class may complain about a left-wing government, they may complain about a right-wing government, but no government ever ruins their digestion, no government ever breaks their backs, no government ever inspires a trip to the beach. Politics never changes their lives, at least not much. What’s strange, too, is that they’re the ones who engage in politics, though it has almost no effect on their lives. For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père