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“Cependant, n'étant pas certaine qu'on me parlait bien de mes sœurs, je n'y prêtai guère attention. Et puis, me disais-je, quand bien même? Est-ce qu’il est de mon ressort de veiller sur mes sœurs, de m'occuper d'elles, de leur montrer de l'affection ? Non, ce n'est pas de mon ressort. Ayant été élevées dans l'affrontement, la jalousie et l’acrimonie, nous ne pouvons, même adultes, effacer de nos souvenirs ce torrent d’aigreur et nous aimer les unes les autres. Nous pouvons nous rencontrer aimablement mais nous ne pouvons certainement pas nous aimer. C’est ainsi que deux années se passèrent, dans l'éloignement et l'indifférence.”
― Self-Portrait in Green
― Self-Portrait in Green
“Comment faire, face à une telle mélancolie ? Contre la mélancolie, contre les regrets, le bon sens et le cynisme ne peuvent rien. Elle ne regrette pas ce qui a été mais ce qui aurait dû, ce qui aurait pu être si elle avait, à l'époque, fait un autre choix, et elle regrette d’avoir fait le choix qu'elle a fait, la voie du malheur. Certes, elle ne dit rien de tout cela. Je le devine à sa dureté contrainte.”
― Self-Portrait in Green
― Self-Portrait in Green
“Ik plofte naast haar neer. Het liep tegen de avond, de grond geurde naar warm vlees en onder mijn vingers trilden de grassprietjes. Ik keek naar doña Bárbara; langs haar wang gleed een doorzichtige, ronde traan die omgekeerd de rondheid van de wereld weerspiegelde.
‘Waarom huilt u?’ informeerde ik.
‘Omdat ik me dit alles in mijn laatste ogenblikken zal herinneren.’
Ik begreep haar niet, want hoewel ik toen al had ontdekt wat de dood betekende, was ik dat op die prachtige middag vergeten.”
― Bella y oscura
‘Waarom huilt u?’ informeerde ik.
‘Omdat ik me dit alles in mijn laatste ogenblikken zal herinneren.’
Ik begreep haar niet, want hoewel ik toen al had ontdekt wat de dood betekende, was ik dat op die prachtige middag vergeten.”
― Bella y oscura
“It was an honour to hold your heart, but my hands are all bloody, so you'd better take it or I'm gonna have to drop this sticky heart of yours.”
― Last Night in Nuuk
― Last Night in Nuuk
“It is only when you get older that everyone makes you feel bad about being alone, or implies that spending time with other people is somehow better, because it proves you to be likeable.
But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.”
― Pure Colour
But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.”
― Pure Colour
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