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“Lots of people want to run away, but the ones who really do rarely announce it beforehand: they just go.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, De avond is ongemak

“We never really live in the seasons as we’re always busy with the next one.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“People need small problems in order to feel bigger.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“She knows life the way tourists know a village: they don’t know how to find the dark alleyways, the path forbidden to trespassers”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine.”
― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls

“I still find that, in general, having a plan is, well, a good plan. But when my carefully laid plan laughed at me, rather than clutch at it too tightly I just made a new one, even if it was one that didn’t immediately make sense. In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. So don’t let your plan have the last laugh, but laugh last when your plan laughs, and when your plan has the last laugh, laugh back, laughing!”
― Lauren Graham , Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

“An important tool against self-doubt is just to ignore it. Forge ahead anyway. Just keep going, keep going, keep going.”
― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Hoop is de lucht die je door de feiten heen klopt om ze iets lichter en draaglijker te maken, zodat je kunt blijven ademen, maar het is precies dat wat straks allemaal kan inzakken.”
― Lize Spit, Ik ben er niet