Tabitha

“Wie weet heb ik de blunder begaan me tot een oersaaie figuur te ontwikkelen, in haar ogen dan. Ter verdediging kan ik het volgende aanvoeren: de meeste mensen zijn oersaai als je ze maar de tijd geeft om dat te bewijzen.”
― Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“What if one of the imperatives we never understood was about love and therefore marriage? Meaning, what if we search to make sure we are lovable and worthy of someone who commits to us absolutely and exclusively, and the only way we can truly confirm we are worth these things is if someone wants to marry us; someone says, ‘Yes, you are the one I will love exclusively. You are worthy of this.’ And then, only when you’re actually married, once this need is fulfilled, you can for the first time wonder if you even wanted to be married or not.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

“We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.”
― Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood