“I watch him throw his head back in supreme happiness, like he's hearing that he gets to choose the colors for all the sunsets from now on.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“He was the kind of man who walks into a room and all the walls fall down.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“En dan, uit het niks: ‘Zijt gij gelukkig?’ Ze kijkt mij recht in de ogen. ‘Ik probeer, denk ik.’ ‘Proberen is goed,’ zegt ze.”
― Vele hemels boven de zevende
― Vele hemels boven de zevende
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