Roel Wijte

“He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly. That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy. He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Una de ellas preguntó en voz alta cómo podía ser que una flor oliera de esa forma, y otra que era una sabionda contestó que algunas flores son polinizadas por las moscas y por eso tienen que oler a carne podrida: para atraerlas. Pero no por eso dejan de ser hermosas y magnéticas, capaces de dejar mudas a un grupo de travestis que ejercen su íntimo ritual de bautismos”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

“Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Al het oude was eens nieuw, en al het nieuwe zal eens oud zijn. Het alleroudste is het heden, want er is nooit iets anders geweest dan het heden. Nooit heeft iemand in het verleden geleefd, en in de toekomst leeft ook niemand.”
― Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven