Harmke

“That is the real story of my lift, and that is why I wrote this book. I want people to know what it feels like to nearly give up on yourself and why you might do it. I want people to understand what happens in the lives of the poor and the psychological impact that spiritual and material poverty has on their children. I want people to understand the American Dream as my family and I encountered it. I want people to understand how upward mobility really feels. And I want people to understand something I learned only recently: that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons of the life we left behind continue to chase us.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn’t suit the moment.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Hoe bedoel je, een heldin? Ze is geen heldin,’ zegt Gita licht geïrriteerd. ‘Ze wil gewoon blijven leven.’
‘Ja, daarom is ze een heldin. Jij bent ook een heldin, mijn liefste. Dat jullie hebben gekozen om dit te overleven, is een vorm van verzet tegen die klotenazi’s. Ervoor kiezen om te leven is een heldhaftige daad, een daad van openlijke ongehoorzaamheid.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours