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“Op mijn enthousiaste peilingen naar wat er een paar dagen later te gebeuren staat, antwoordt een negentigjarige zwarte taxichauffeur in Texas me bijzonder sceptisch: 'Hell no there ain't gonna be no black man in the White House.' Hij voegt er een zinnetje aan toe dat meer zegt over het ongeloof in wat komt. 'And if there is, there sure is gonna be hell to pay.' Voor Obama verkozen is, hangt de schaduw van Trump al over het land.”
― Robin Ramaekers, Front

“All he cared about was that he ended up in the slot he’d bought, right next to Marilyn’s. She was the first woman to grace the cover of Playboy and to appear nude inside its pages. He put her in there without her permission, after buying the photos from a calendar company. She never got a dime. And she certainly didn’t have any say in whose bones would be lying next to hers for all eternity.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“When we feel like crying, we should let it all out. Forcing them back only makes the wounds heal slower.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“You’ll look like this one day,” she said. “They hate us enough. Don’t hate yourselves, too.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls