Inge Frank

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Ik wist, dat Freddie L. mij niet om woorden of grofheden of banaliteiten zou verwerpen, en dat hij wel degelijk iets met mij wilde beginnen dat, wat hem betrof, best op den duur iets blijvends mocht worden. En aldus geviel het, dat ik de wereld bezat, die ik niet wilde. Of wilde ik die wel? Wat wilde ik dan, eigenlijk?”
― Gerard Reve, Lieve Jongens

“Manuscripts don't burn.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita