Erik Lamberts

“For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.”
― Paul Auster, Leviathan

“Uit de achterzijde van haar tanga stak een wit label met wasvoorschriften.”
― Tommy Wieringa, De heilige Rita

“Ruud is in 2003 overleden. Veertien jaar geleden alweer.'
'O,' zei Paul, 'Dat spijt me.'
'Zelfdoding. Ja, ik zeg het maar even meteen, anders blijft het zo hangen.'
Paul keek rond, zijn ziel vloog als een musje tegen het raam.”
― Tommy Wieringa, De heilige Rita

“She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I...well, I didn't do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo