Raf Linmans

“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“Ideas at first considered outrageous or ridiculous or extreme gradually become what people think they've always believed. How the transformation happened is rarely remembered, in part because it's compromising: it recalls the mainstream when the mainstream was, say, rabidly homophobic or racist in a way it no longer is; and it recalls that power comes from the shadows and the margins, that our hope is in the dark around the edges, not the limelight of center stage. Our hope and often our power.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“Ze wilde graag nog wat langer boos op hem zijn. Vooral omdat het touwtje van haar tampon slecht zat en ze het zo oneerlijk vond dat Andreas nooit het verdrietige gevoel van een verkeerd tamponkoordje zou begrijpen. Hij zou haar überhaupt nooit begrijpen.”
― Lara Taveirne, Hotel zonder sterren

“The world is on fire and needs a lot of money to put out the fire. The richest possess a lot of money that they don’t need at all. So we should start getting our firewater from the super-rich. Only then from the middle class, and certainly not from the poor.”
― Ingrid Robeyns