Bart Van Overmeire
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Marie NDiaye
“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.”
Marie NDiaye, Self-Portrait in Green

Rosa Montero
“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.”
Rosa Montero, Bella y oscura

Tanya Tagaq
“I mourn them, but I understand that there is danger in mourning for those who would not mourn for you in return. Empathy is for those who can afford it. Empathy is for the privileged. Empathy is not for Nature.”
Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

“Too late I realise that she has been the Summer of my life. What a slow and painful death this shall be.”
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

Jamaica Kincaid
“I had just lived through a bleak and cold time, and it is not to the weather outside that I refer. I had lived through this time, and as the weather changed from cold to warm it did not bring me along with it.”
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

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