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“We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“I’m beginning to have more and more doubts about whether I find God nice enough to want to go and talk to Him. I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves. I think I’ll belong to that second group.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“Der Marquise stürzte der Schmerz aus den Augen. [...] Sie sank, als sie die Türe verschlossen fand, mit jammender Stimme, alle Heiligen zu Zeugen ihrer Unschuld anrufend, vor derselben nieder,”
― Heinrich von Kleist, Die Marquise von O... / Das Erdbeben in Chili

“But your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet