Varamyr schreef:
‘We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken,’ Crime and Punishment
‘Drug stories are sinister. Like some war stories, they focus on adventure and escape. In the tradition of a long line of famous and infamous carousers and their chroniclers, even hangovers and near-death experiences and visits to the emergency room can be made to seem glorious. But usually the storytellers omit the slow degeneration, psychic trauma, and, finally, the casualties,’ Beautiful Boy
'You didn't cause it, you can't control it, you can't cure it,' Beautiful Boy
'I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody,' Franny en Zooey
'He has a disease, but addiction is the most baffling of all diseases, unique in the blame, shame, and humiliation that accompany it,' Beautiful Boy