Wanda

“Juist omdat het leven kort is, moet je het even moeilijk durven laten zijn, als dat nodig blijkt.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Het beste wat we hebben

“Misschien snijdt eenzaamheid als je bij mensen bent dieper dan alleen zijn waar geen misverstand over bestaat, (...).”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Het beste wat we hebben

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People