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“Onze leiders zijn knechten jongen. Dat is de tragikomedie: in elke heerser zit een doodgewone knecht te bibberen van de schrik.”
― Jeroen Olyslaegers, WIL

“He has always reflexively imagined ways to cause himself extreme injury when he was distressed. It seemed to sooth him briefly, the act of imagining a much worse and more totalising pain then the one he really felt, maybe just the cognitive energy it required, the momentary break in his train of thought, but afterwards he would only feel worse.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving a wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with somebody that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of somebody else's. It's sacred.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People