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Tweede keer dat ik dit boek lees, and I still love it.Ik krijg maar niet genoeg van deze wereld en zal zeker ook de andere boeken lezen. Het voelt enorm vertrouwd en rustgevend hoe dit verhaal je wordt voorgelezen. Het lijkt of Tolkien naast je zit e ...more "
“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.”
― The Unconsoled
― The Unconsoled
“He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, "Is it tame?" Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great.”
― A Kestrel for a Knave
― A Kestrel for a Knave
“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?”
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