Jurgen

“I think brains might be machines that turn information into feelings and feelings back into decisions and I've discovered that my machine has been put together in a strange way and it translates life in a strange way but I have no way to fix this—I'm not a brain-machine fixer, I'm just a haver of a brain, like anyone, and none of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Aldus werd hij vanzelf een Bekende Nederlander, zoals de bovenlaag van culturele volksvertegenwoordigers heette die waren aangeraakt door het televisielicht.”
― A.F.Th. van der Heijden, Kwaadschiks

“Gelukkig is vrijheid van meningsuiting iets anders dan het recht op een podium.”
― Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

“Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments, those hours, those days you loved the most.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing