Mara Goossens

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I'm having trouble dealing with society."
"What aspect of society?"
"The whole thing.”
― Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York: Stories

“Er werd wel eens beweerd dat juist in de wens het waarlijk geluk ligt, in het nog onvervulde willen, maar niks is minder waar, vond hij. In het weerzien, het vinden, het landen daar zat het, zoveel wist hij inmiddels wel zeker.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Het beste wat we hebben

“A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes.
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind.

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.
You left me in the dark.
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight.
In the shadow of your heart.

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat.
I tried to find the sound.
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became.


I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map.
And knew that somehow I could find my way back.
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too.
So I stayed in the darkness with you.”
― Florence Welch Isabella Summers