Robyn Maire

“Ik zeg het niet, maar soms voel ik me alsof hij precies zo met me omgaat: me uit elkaar haalt en iets nieuws van me maakt.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“All that ancestor stuff … I mean, I’ve got English ancestors too, haven’t I? It’s no good saying like my ancestors were African, so I’ve got to go back to my roots …. It was my English ancestors who sold my African ancestors into slavery. Where does that leave me? Am I innocent or guilty or what? ‘’
‘You can’t go back’’ Stuart said. ‘’You can only go forward. You can’t forget either. You have to use everything you know.”
― Philip Pullman, The Broken Bridge

“It’s easy to pinpoint when it all started, that moment of walking into his sun-soaked classroom and feeling his eyes drink me in for the first time, but it’s harder to know when it ended, if it really ended at all. I think it stopped when I was twenty-two, when he said he needed to get himself together and couldn’t live a decent life while I was within reach, but for the past decade there have been late-night calls, him and me reliving the past, worrying the wound we both refuse to let heal.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Slán agus beannachtai Dé oraibh. Goodbye and God’s bleesing be on you. Provided you aren’t wearing a rainbow pin.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples