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“Wie weet heb ik de blunder begaan me tot een oersaaie figuur te ontwikkelen, in haar ogen dan. Ter verdediging kan ik het volgende aanvoeren: de meeste mensen zijn oersaai als je ze maar de tijd geeft om dat te bewijzen.”
― Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

“En hij gaf me met zijn nieuwe, afgetakelde verschijning een laatste les mee, een les waar ik hem om haatte; helden bestaan niet; je heb alleen mensen die ploeteren, mensen die zo goed mogelijk hun best doen.”
― Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

“Un couple ne coule des jours heureux que l’espace de quelques mois. Ensuite, c’est du travail, des compromis, de la frustration, des larmes. Mais ça en vaut la peine, parce que le résultat est une unité qui n’est pas due à de la chimie ou de la magie, cette unité, vous l’avez construite. L’amour n’existe pas par lui-même, il se bâtit. (P. 282)”
― Joël Dicker, L'affaire Alaska Sanders

“Zolang wij onze dierbaren om ons heen hebben, houden wij van ze om alles wat ze uitzonderlijk maakt, maar zijn ze weg dan missen wij vooral hun dagelijks doen.”
― Arthur Japin, Mrs. Degas

“Life’s too long for this worry,” he adds.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“while a mother who miscarries might not have ever had the chance to hold that child, they had plenty. of time to love them, to dream and hope for them. And that means their grief is twofold - they're not just grieving the child, but the life they never got to experience. Who are we to tell anyone their pain isn't worthy?”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“If you want something you don’t have,” he’d said, “you have to do something you’ve never done.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“... most of us are guilty of that with our loved ones. We get stuck in a routine and we look at them as we've always looked at them, without seeing them for the person they've become or the person they strive to be. What a terrible thing to do to someone you love.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“What most people don’t consider is that death is often random and cruel. It doesn’t care if you’ve been kind all your life. Or if you’ve eaten healthily, exercised often, and always worn a seat belt or a helmet. It doesn’t care that a loved one left behind might spend the rest of their lives replaying events in their head, tormented by the words “if only.” People tell themselves they’ve got plenty of time, until they’re at the mercy of a careless action—a driver on their cellphone, a neighbor who left a candle burning. And by then, it’s too late.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“It’s easy to glamorize the path you didn’t take.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“The truth is, grief neve really goes away. Someone told me once that it's like a bag that you always carry - it starts out as large as a suitcase, and as the years go by, it might reduce to the size of a purse, but you carry it forever. I know it probably sounds cliched, but it helped me realize that I didn't need to ever get over it completely.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“That’s the thing about loneliness: no one ever chooses it.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“I don't think it's weird at all. Death is a natural part of life. in fact, it's the only thing in life that we can really count on.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“It’s so easy to see your parental figure through that lens alone, to think that their existence has always revolved around yours. But before they were parents, they were simply human beings trying to navigate life as best they could, dealing with their own disappointments, chasing after their own dreams. And yet we often expect them to be infallible.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“For the one you love? Anything. You unmake the world and build a new one. You do anything to give them what they need.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Just because something doesn’t make money or win awards doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life