Wouter

“Difficulties are just things to overcome.”
― Ernest Shackleton

“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

“What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

“She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.”
― Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone