Anja Stevic

“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”
― Cees Nooteboom

“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”
― Cees Nooteboom, Rituals

“He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that "in spite of everything" this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.”
― Cees Nooteboom, Rituals

“I've never been a coward at heart, although I've always been a coward in action”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky