Bosnian Quotes

“Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život.”
― Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar, Ljubav je Sihirbaz, Babo

“For some, their childhood began in World War II
And old age ended with the Bosnian War
They tried to run from their horrible past
They wanted their heartache to pass by fast”
― Aida Mandic, Justice For Bosnia and Herzegovina

“You've never known energy like this before
Because your heart was used to wanting more
But a Bosnian beauty will shake your foundations
Cause you to rethink those strong motivations”
― Aida Mandic, A Candid Aim

“If the thrill of adventure is a turn on
And you hold admiration for intelligence with zeal
Then you may have found your swan
In a Bosnian woman that helped you heal”
― Aida Mandic, A Candid Aim

“When I arrived home, I knocked on the door, as I wanted the option of a quick get-away if Mum got agro. I had never before feared my mother, but I had become infected with fear after living in a Communist regime where people who were different from the so-called ‘norm’ were viewed as dangerous and often locked in institutions. While we lived in Bosnia Mum, too, was incarcerated in hospital whenever she demonstrated the tiniest indication of her illness.” Nervous Breakdowns”
― Amra Pajalic, The Cuckoo's Song

“I sullenly walked to the park. I was seven; old enough to understand why I was sent away.
When I returned, Mum and Muamer were not in the living room where I’d left them. I ran through the hallway in panic. Hearing them talk from a closed bedroom door I pushed it open. Muamer was standing beside the bed in a dark blue silk robe that shimmered over his potbelly. The short robe barely grazed his thighs; his hairy legs stuck out of the bottom of the robe. He looked embarrassed when I walked in. Mum didn’t move from where she lay. Muamer picked something up from the bed and headed for the door.” Woman on Fire”
― Amra Pajalic, The Cuckoo's Song

“While I’d had many upheavals during my young life, the one constant and been my mother. Now that she was in another country and completely lost to me, I realised how much she was a part of me. Missing her was like a physical ache that I could not assuage.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me