Categorie:Backlist Book Reviews

“Life follows its own rules here.”

“Everything they’d been told about dinosaurs was a complete and utter lie. Unintelligent creatures didn’t track you for thousands of sectars across a continent. Creatures who only acted on instinct didn’t know how to put out fires. Tiny-brained dinosaurs didn’t put themselves in harms way to save a human life.”

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

“The last thing I wanted was to fall in love
because, deep down, I remembered that love hurt.”

‘Ik durf te wedden dat je soms in iemands hand alle geheimen van het universum kunt vinden.’

“She said that you could spend your whole life wandering the earth and never find one person who makes you feel complete. So if you ever meet that person, you should cling to them with both hands and never let go.”

“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.”

“Because everyone wanted something, and when someone coveted a thing enough, rarely did they question the price.”

“You aren’t a hero and I’m not beautiful and we probably won’t live happily ever after ” she said. “But we’re alive and together and we’re going to be all right.”

“This is where life happens, in the stuff that’s left behind.”