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Tommy Wallach
“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

Toon Tellegen
“Als ik de olifant was, dacht de eendagsvlieg, dan zou ik in zó'n hoge boom klimmen dat ik over de horizon heen kon kijken, zodat de zon daarachter niet kon ondergaan.
Ik zou kijken, niet dansen, niet struikelen, niet vallen, alleen maar kijken.
Dan ging de dag nooit voorbij en zou ik daar altijd blijven.
En als er dieren langs die boom kwamen en riepen: ‘Wie bent u?, dan zou ik terugroepen: ‘De honderdjaarsvlieg!’ of misschien wel: ‘De honderdzevenennegentigjaarsvlieg!
‘O,’ zouden ze roepen, ‘dus niet de olifant?’
‘Nee!’
(p. 35)”
― Toon Tellegen

Stephen Chbosky
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

M.R. Carey
“you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

Patrick Ness
“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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