“Bij mijn kamerdeur gaf ze me een kusje op mijn wang. 'Welterusten, schat. En dank je wel.'
'Waarvoor?'
'Voor dat ik je ken.”
― Opgewekt naar de eindstreep: Het laatste geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 90 jaar
'Waarvoor?'
'Voor dat ik je ken.”
― Opgewekt naar de eindstreep: Het laatste geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 90 jaar
“De persoon van wie je houdt bestaat voor 72,8 % uit water en het heeft al weken niet geregend.”
― Buzz Aldrin, waar ben je gebleven?
― Buzz Aldrin, waar ben je gebleven?
“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“But you cannot endure this world alone, and the more Samuel’s written his book, the more he’s realized how wrong he was. Because if you see people as enemies or obstacles or traps, you will be at constant war with them and with yourself. Whereas if you choose to see people as puzzles, and if you see yourself as a puzzle, then you will be constantly delighted, because eventually, if you dig deep enough into anybody, if you really look under the hood of someone’s life, you will find something familiar.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
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