Lisa

“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“…zag jij misschien dat ik naar jou,
dat ik je zag en dat ik zag hoe jij
naar mij te kijken zoals ik naar jou
en dat ik hoe dat heet zo steels,
zo en passant en ook zo zijdelings -
dat ik je net zo lang bekeek tot ik
naar je staarde en dat ik staren bleef.
Ik zag je toen en ik wist in te zien
dat in mijn leven zoveel is gezien
zonder dat ik het ooit eerder zag:
dat kijken zoveel liefs vermag.”
― Joost Zwagerman

“Still now I send letters into space
Hoping that some mailman somewhere will track you down
And recognise you from the descriptions in my poems
That he will place the stack of them in your hands and tell you,
There is a girl who still writes you, she doesn't know how not to”
― Sarah Kay

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End