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"Manchmal hatte ich das Gefühl, wir, seine Familie, seien für ihn wie Haustiere."

"Es hat seine eigene Quelle und ist auf ebenso eigenständige WEise mein Handeln, wie mein Denken mein Denken ist und mein Entscheiden mein Entscheiden."

"Because powerful, between you and me, is something I really am not. And I probably, as a result, have no less respect for the powerful than you do, only I'm not as honest as you and won't always admit it."

"I died. I was born dead. I can't help it. I'm tired. I'm giving out trying. You got chances. I had so many insults I was born dead. ... I been dead fifty-five years."

"He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand."

"Er zijn zoveel boeken geschreven, dat iemand die zijn best doet, er nooit toe hoeft te komen hetzelfde te lezen, want daar is een mensenleeftijd te kort voor. Geloof mij maar."

"Ik zou u geloven, als je, wanneer je begon te lezen, ook ophield te leven, maar dat is niet zo. Daardoor kun je nooit al je aandacht aan lezen besteden, want dan komt er van je leven helemaal niets meer terecht."

Ouch...

“You knew this when you left Earth, question?”
“Yes.”
“You are good human.”

I thought I understood Grace, but the ending of chapter 23 made me realize that I've been crediting him for something he hadn't actually earned yet. One flashback changed how I understood everything that had already happened until then.

"Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people - whereas you're just as brave, and no braver."

Hexagonal blind echolocating spiders or something.

"Iedereen is op een of andere wijze vergiftigd. Iedereen produceert gif. Alles is vergif. Doodgewoon alleen maar vergif. Het hele leven is vergif. Een mens, dat is niets anders dan een met leven vergiftelijk lijk!"

"Een stille vrede is beter dan een daverende ruzie. Misschien wel niet zo eervol, maar toch beter voor je gezondheid."

"Looks like Iike I'm one of the lucky ones.
I'm using 'lucky' loosely here. I'm on a suicide mission."

"I'm going to die out here. And I'm going to die alone."

"What's two plus two?"
Something about the question irritates me. I'm tired. I drift back to sleep.
A few minutes pass, then I hear it again.
"What's two plus two?"

Hopelijk doet Andy Weir weer wat hij zo goed deed in The Martian.

Opa krijgt bovennatuurlijke ingreep, nadat zijn dode werkbuddy zijn chakra's las, omdat therapie te duur was

Scrooge, de ultieme manifestatie van een gierige Nederlander.

"As the room dims and the sound of voices fades you understand that the world and all in it will soon cease to be. You believe that it will begin again. You point to other lives. But their world was never yours."

"When smart people do dumb things it's usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear.
In either case they've usually fastened on to a set of beliefs that are supportive of their state of mind but at odds with reality.
It has become more important to them to believe than to know. Does that make sense to you?"

There were no starry skies prior to the first sentient and ocular being to behold them. Before that all was blackness and silence.
And yet it moved.
And yet.

Ben wel blij dat ik eerst Stella Maris gelezen heb.

De helft van het boek is "To the old dingdong again." en "Poop of a lovely." en de andere helft is "The voice of dark age, of unlove, earth’s fatigue made
grave approach and painful, come from afar."
Waarom.

She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham, could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.

"I should be sorry, you know, to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in Derbyshire"
"Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all."
Roasted. 🔥🔥

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it…”

Elizabeth 🔛🔝!!