Jade Peiren

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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

“Every belief will be outgrown, in time. The first lesson of the universe is to never reason from only a single instance. Unless you only have one instance. In which case: find another.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Als kind stelde ik me altijd voor dat de dag handmatig op gang gebracht moest worden gebracht en dat het eeuwig nacht zou blijven als niemand die verantwoordelijkheid op zich nam.”
― Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven