Angela

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“De hoeveelheid dingen waarover ik in staat was te schrijven was namelijk veel te beperkt. Stel dat ik iets zinnigs kon zeggen over olifanten; dan betekende dat nog niet dat ik ook iets kon schrijven over hun oppassers. Dat bedoel ik.”
― Haruki Murakami

“History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?'

'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King

“A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life. This ridiculous foible is perhaps one of our most fatal characteristics; for is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a burden which one can always throw down? to detest existence and yet to cling to one's existence? in brief, to caress the serpent which devours us, till he has eaten our very heart?”
― Voltaire, Candide