“I'm not a fan of everything that our ancestors did. But some practices are worth reviving. One of them is looking upon marriage as a sacred partnership between two souls; not as a political alliance between two power centres.”
“When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter”
Source: A Life of Unlearning - a preacher's struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith
“De eerste missionarissen in Oost-Afrika hadden hooguit vijf jaar te leven, dat wisten ze, en toch gingen ze.”
Source: Het einde van een tijdperk: 130 jaar belevenissen van Nederlandse missionarissen
“For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time.”
Source: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World
“Her task seemed ridiculous, the result of a momentary weakness, of believing in the impossible, that stories have a trajectory where we find things out, resolve things to our satisfaction and come out the other side, wiser and happier”
Source: Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
“Be the art that life is breathing.
Be the soul the world is living.”
Source: Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“We are hopeless romantics
who still fall in love with
words.”
“But this question of love... this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton; her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had that not, after all, been love?”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“The nights were advantageous, too. After they kissed their families goodnight, it was expected that they would share a bed, their bodies close, their movements obscured under the covers.”
Source: Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
“In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.”
Source: Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis