Robin

“Hoe kan het een wet zijn dat je, als je iemand kwijtraakt, ook meteen jezelf kwijtraakt? -Ik wil niet mee, ik wil niet mee! Nu weet ik: geen verzet. Het is zoals wanneer je wordt gepakt door een wild dier of door de stroming: hou je van de domme. Wees geen held.”
― Maartje Wortel, Goudvissen en beton

“In one way, what I saw in those mirrors was the self trapped inside the self, forever.

But in another way, the self in the mirror was opening out, in an infinite unfurling.

I am the one whose drive is being thwarted.

And I am the one who is thwarting it.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Children of Blood and Bone was written during a time where I kept turning on the news and seeing stories of unarmed black men, women, and children being shot by the police. I felt afraid and angry and helpless, but this book was the one thing that made me feel like I could do something about it. I told myself that if just one person could read it and have their hearts or minds changed, then I would've done something meaningful against a problem that often feels so much bigger than myself.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone