Leiden.schaft

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“Yells and howls, threaded together layer upon layer, are enmeshed to form that lump. Because of meat. I ate too much meat. The lives of the animals I ate have all lodged there. Blood and flesh, all those butchered bodies are scattered in every nook and cranny, and though the physical remnants were excreted, their lives still stick stubbornly to my insides.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“L’enfer, ce n’est pas les autres, c’est l’obligation de vivre avec eux.”
― Sylvain Tesson, Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine