Jade Peiren

“Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

“you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love, that, my dear, is love”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“There was a planet that couldn’t figure out where everyone was. It died of loneliness. That happened billions of times in our galaxy alone.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Maar als je achterom kijkt terwijl je voouit wilt, dan struikel je.”
― Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven