“This was my life now. I was twenty-one years old, doing the first year of a literature course, I had a stranger living next door to me, I had a friend I still didn't really know on the floor beneath and a girlfriend. I knew nothing, but I was still getting better and better at pretending I did.” YouthTwentiesIndependence Book:Min kamp 5 Source: Min kamp 5
“All day flashes of happiness swept through me. Something fantastic had happened. We had chatted a bit, that was all. For a year she had worked here, for a year I had seen her going to and fro, and she had seen me. I had never felt any of what I felt now. Not once, not even close. Then we had met at a party, smiled at each other - and that was that? Yes that was that. How was it possible? How could it change everything? Because everything was changed, I knew that. My heart told me. And the heart is never wrong. The heart is never ever wrong.” LoveDreamTwentiesFalling In LoveInfatuationAnima Book:Min kamp 5 Source: Min kamp 5
“It would be so much easier to give up, to say a cold goodbye and not contact her again. All the problems, all the pain, all the defeats would finish there. But I couldn't. She stood up, it was late, time to go home, I accompanied her to the door, said bye, watched her go, she walked up the hill without turning. When I went back down I put on 'Siamese Dream' again, lay back on the bed and let my mind fill with thoughts of her” LoveGirlTwentiesInfatuationAnima Book:Min kamp 5 Source: Min kamp 5