Isa Cuppen

“Eén regel dreunde na: ‘Chez-toi c’est l’ennemi le plus faible’ – thuis is de zwakste vijand –, maar de strijd tegen thuis is de langste mars.”
― Adriaan van Dis, Ik kom terug

“We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“Our children live or die with or without us. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides