Blue

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Les gens pensent que l’intimité est une histoire de sexe. Mais c’est surtout une histoire de confiance.

Quand vous prenez conscience que vous pouvez raconter votre vérité à une personne, quand vous pouvez lui montrer qui vous êtes, quand vous vous tenez à nu devant elle et que sa réponse est : « Tu es en sécurité avec moi », c’est de l’intimité.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Among those who have everything, I have never seen a family go to the seashore just to celebrate a political decision, because for them politics changes almost nothing. This is something I realized when I went to live in Paris, far away from you: the ruling class may complain about a left-wing government, they may complain about a right-wing government, but no government ever ruins their digestion, no government ever breaks their backs, no government ever inspires a trip to the beach. Politics never changes their lives, at least not much. What’s strange, too, is that they’re the ones who engage in politics, though it has almost no effect on their lives. For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“Personne n’avait jamais demandé à Ove comment il vivait avant leur rencontre. Mais si on lui avait posé la question, il aurait répondu qu’il ne vivait pas”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove