“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and dreams and things you did too young and things you overheard that you shouldn’t have and secrets you kept or couldn’t and regrets and victories and quiet prides, all the packed-together detritus that becomes what you call your life.”
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Mirror Mirror
“This is where life happens, in the stuff that’s left behind.”
The last Namsara
“Then may Death send his worst. Cold to freeze the love in my heart. Fire to burn my memories to ash. Wind to force me through the gates. Time to wear my loyalty away. I’ll wait for you at Death’s gate.”
Alienated
“How can we understand what we’ve never experienced and adapt without making mistakes?”
Spells Trouble
Double double, twins spell trouble…
Ach, Moedertje
“Al bijna drie jaar lang schrijft Hugo Borst wekelijks een kroniek over zijn moeder in het AD. Ze lijdt aan Alzheimer en woont op een gesloten afdeling in een verpleeghuis. De immens populaire kroniek resulteerde in 2015 in het boek Ma, dat een uitzonderlijk groot succes werd. De openhartige, liefdevolle wijze waarop Hugo over zijn moeder schrijft, roept veel herkenning en emoties op bij zijn lezers.”
The Princess Game
“Princes need to look after each other.”
It ends with us
“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
The nine lives of Chloe King
“Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.”
A Gift for Dying
“I saw it”.
“Saw what?”.
“His death.”