Bo

“Sometimes, family isn’t just what you’re born into—it’s also what you build in the aftermath of loss.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

“Not every wound makes noise. Some bleed into the soil, into the stories we pass down. Healing begins with listening.”
― Lawrence Nault

“And he cries and cries, cries for everything he has been, for everything he might have been, for every old hurt, for every old happiness, cries for the shame and joy of finally getting to be a child, with all of a child’s whims and wants and insecurities, for the privilege of behaving badly and being forgiven, for the luxury of tendernesses, of fondnesses, of being served a meal and being made to eat it, for the ability, at last, at last, of believing a parent’s reassurances, of believing that to someone he is special despite all his mistakes and hatefulness, because of all his mistakes and hatefulness.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Ik sta te kijken naar dat stenen bewijs van haar verdwijnen, en ik voel niks. Of misschien alles, dat valt moeilijk zomaar te zeggen, soms.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Kom hier dat ik u kus