

“Ik vertel je mijn leven alleen opdat jij dit geheim meteen bij aanvang al zult kennen: wij zijn ongelukkig omdat wij denken dat we lief moeten hebben. Om gered te worden moeten wij iets eenvoudigs doen dat ons desalniettemin het zwaarst van alles valt: wegschenken waarnaar wij juist het meest verlangen. Niet hebben, maar geven. Zo zegepralen wij alsnog. Dit heeft mij mijn gebrek geleerd.”
― Een schitterend gebrek
― Een schitterend gebrek
“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I may not have amazing victories, but I can amaze you with the defeats that I came out of alive.”
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“Dit is het enige wat telt, lieverd, dat iemand meer in je ziet dan je wist dat er te zien was”
― Een schitterend gebrek
― Een schitterend gebrek

“Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?”
― In the Presence of Absence
― In the Presence of Absence

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