Cara Jacobs

“Om noemenswaardig te worden moet je in dit dorp iets noemenswaardig over een ander vertellen".”
― Lize Spit, Het smelt

“I told him that I would continue our work, our collaboration, for as long as I lived. Will you write our story? Do you want me to? You have to he said no one but you can write it. I will do it, I promised, though I knew it would be a vow difficult to keep. I love you Patti. I love you Robert. And he was wheeled away for tests and I never heard him speak again. Save for his breath, which seemed to fill his hospital room as he lay dying. (p. 287)”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Het bestaan van pijn heeft een reden: het is een signaal dat je moet stoppen met wat je doet.”
― Sarah Forsyth, Mijn leven in de hel

“And perhaps her escape was not from anything she had done, but from what she had seen. It was a speculation. I would never find out, for she possessed her secrets fully, as did those women that Vermeer painted in this same gray, lowland light; like theirs, her silence seemed absolute.”
― Teju Cole, Open City