“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”
― A Time for Everything
― A Time for Everything
“[L]et them be their own Rorschach tests[.]”
― The Lost Scrapbook
― The Lost Scrapbook
“The e-mail lands like a mortar in the Hum suzerainty.”
― Flee
― Flee
“And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.”
― Flee
― Flee
“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of colour across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”
― Min kamp 1
― Min kamp 1
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