daria

“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“I hold nothing dear. Not the place where I live, not the door I pass through every day, not even, damn it, my life.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“This life needed only one of us to live. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now.
My life means yours is impossible.
Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“Isabel had never known loneliness like that, one that arrived without the promise of leaving.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep