Tess

“Ik bleef maar stappen, omdat ik mijn gedachten voor wilde zijn.”
― Peter Verhelst, Tonguecat

“When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!"
The affirmative echoed around the woods. The dog pricked up his ears. This man has no one to talk to, thought Inni.
"But when he then asks me to be responsible for the world as well, for others, I say no! No. Why should I be? 'When man chooses himself, he chooses all men.' Why? I have not asked for anything. I have nothing to do with the vermin I see around me. I live out my time because I have to, that is all.”
― Cees Nooteboom, Rituals

“Het zijn je ribben," zei ze en ze liet me een plaat zien met zwarte vlekken en zilverkleurige penen die gebroken waren.
"Zie je wel?" zei ze.
Ik keek haar in de ogen en dacht: het is mijn hart.”
― Peter Verhelst, Tonguecat

“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying”
― Ted Hughes, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow