Michelle

“Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies – birth, love, and death – are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice!”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“Er zijn vele wegen die hij in het leven kan nemen en ik wil zijn atlas zijn.”
― Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen

“Once you’ve got women and a border, a story can write itself. Even women on their own are enough. Women are stories in themselves, full of stirrings and whisperings that float on the wind, that bend with each blade of grass.”
― Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name