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“Ik deed een stap achteruit en het enige wat ik zag was regen door de ramen die wel van smeltend zilver leken”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Ik denk dat er verhalen zijn die niet verteld hoeven te worden.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

“En toch dwaalde ze al die tijd in gedachten door de kathedralen van het bos, in die nog altijd witte wereld waar de uilen krasten in het donker en een vriend op sterven lag.”
― Nicci Gerrard

“Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.”
― Ann Leary, The Good House

“There's this moment, just before it happens, when everything around you goes still. It's like that moment you get just before it snows - like nature is holding its breath ... And in that moment, anything is possible, and everything you know is called into question.”
― Miranda Dickinson

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently—that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It's not wind at all," Cath said. "It's what we feel when time suddenly jolts forward.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“And when he realized I was on my way, his gaze flew up to mine. In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved.
The world woke up when I looked at him.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Henry gaat op de schommel naast me zitten, met zijn gezicht de andere kant op, en we schommelen steeds hoger en hoger , we passeren elkaar, soms gaan we gelijk op en soms gaan we zo snel langs elkaar dat het net lijkt alsof we zullen botsen, en we lachen, en lachen, en niets kan ooit verdrietig zijn, niets kan ooit worden verloren, of dood zijn, of ver weg; nu zijn we hier, en niets kan onze volmaaktheid verstoren of dit volmaakte moment van zijn vreugde beroven.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Een kraai vliegt over het gras. Zijn schaduw vliegt onder hem door en komt hem weer tegen wanneer hij onder het raam landt en één keer krast.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.”
― Jeanne Safer

“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I don't suppose I could have a whiskey instead of the wine, could I?"
"Whiskey?"
"Yes"
"I didn't know you drank whiskey."
"And I didn't know you were a psychopath. Just bring me a whiskey”
― B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

“I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners.”
― B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

“It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“But the little things are what make up life.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“The Eδian encampment was quiet save for the crackle of campfires and the muted voices of soldiers, who where huddled in groups around the fires, discussing tactics or telling stories they'd never told anyone else, but needed to be told. In case they died in the morning.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“None of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline