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“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Mislio sam da sam zaboravio, ali ništa se izgleda ne zaboravlja, sve se vraća iz zaključanih pretinaca, iz mraka tobožnjeg zaborava, i sve je naše što smo mislili da je već ničije, ne treba nam, a stoji pred nama, svjetluca svojim bivšim postojanjem, podsjećajući nas i ranjavajući. I sveteći se zbog izdaje. Kasno je, sjećanja, uzalud se javljate, beskorisne su vaše nemoćne utjehe i podsjećanja na ono što je moglo da bude, jer što nije bilo, nije ni moglo da bude. A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono što se nije ostvarilo. Vi ste varka koja rađa nezadovoljstvo, varka koju ne mogu i ne želim da otjeram, jer me razoružava i tihom tugom brani od patnje.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Zaborav sve leči, a pesma je najlepši način zaborava, jer u pesmi se čovek seća samo onoga što voli.”
― ivo andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.”
He closed the distance between them.
“You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her.
“Why? Why am I the one?”
“Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever, not right now.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.”
― Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“...Ništa nije pomagalo.
Ostajala je postelja, koja kao grob pokriva zaboravom i leči svaku muku, iako manje savršeno. Ah, kad bi leći bilo isto što i zaspati, život ne bi bio ovo što jeste: smrt bez mira i izvesnosti. Dalji i nedostižniji od najvećeg blaga i najsmelijeg svetskog rekorda, san je ležao negde u daljini, okean sna, a ja sam ginuo za jednom jedinom kapi njegovom. Zaspati, spavati snom bez snova, mrtvim snom, u kom nema ni kofera, ni plača, ni ženske kose, ni žena, stvarnih ni avetinjskih.”
― Ivo Andrić, Jelena, žena koje nema

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Sve će proći. Ali, kakva je to utjeha? Proći će i radost, proći će i ljubav, proći će i život. Zar je nada u tome da sve prođe?”
― Mesa Selimovic, The Fortress