Fien De Block

“After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book

“Misschien had hij gelijk. Of kon niemand gelijk hebben, omdat dit allemaal alleen in theorie was en theorieën tijdverdrijf waren voor strategen en intellectuelen. Voor elke theorie tien werkelijkheden. Dit had vast iemand eens zo gezegd, dat kon haast niet anders, vroeg of laat werd alles een uitspraak.”
― Niña Weijers, De consequenties

“The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.”
― Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime

“Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later, sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power