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“It's not as though we only care about the present. If you were to point to a faraway mountain and say, If you can make it there, it's a pretty good view, I'd see that there's not an ounce of untruth to what you tell us. But when you say, Well, bear with it just a little longer, if you can make it to the top of that mountain, you'll have done it, you are ignoring the fact that we are suffering from a terrible stomachache—right now. Surely one of you is mistaken to let us go on this way. You're the one who is to blame.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
“Ik kan er nog steeds niet bij dat Rem deze plek wil verlaten. Sinds hij erachter kwam dat de gentrificatie nu ook onze rafelrand heeft bereikt en dat we tonnen overwaarde hebben, zit hij voortdurend op Funda. Scrollend langs mogelijke levens in goed gestucte huizen met ramen van tripleglas en afgekochte erfpacht. Soms hoor ik hem geestdriftig roepen vanachter zijn scherm. 'Een eigen oprit!' Of: 'In dit huis is het ALTIJD twintig graden!' Het lukt me nooit om zijn enthousiasme te delen. Het lijkt me afschuwelijk, ramen waar geen geluid doorheen komt, altijd dezelfde lauwe temperatuur. Duizend keer liever ons vierseizoenenhuis, waar winter en zomer doorheen blazen en de herfst naar binnen sijpelt.”
― Nachtgids
― Nachtgids
“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.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
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