Angela

“You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“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

“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

“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