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“En daarom moet u voor die tijd wel weten
hoe pruimenbloesem ritselt als het waait,
en hoe de vlier bloeit. U moet niet vergeten:
de Meien zijn betrekk'lijk dun gezaaid.”
― Annie M.G. Schmidt, Die van die van u

“Tom te tom tom, tom te tom.' zong Frits in zichzelf, 'het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.”
― Gerard Reve

“Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City