Quiet Flows The Una Quotes

“You will be offered progress and prosperity in strictly policed states, and you’ll pay for them with oblivion. I don’t forgive or forget, and I remember everything. To write means to speak, to make speeches to an invisible audience – this is my little rostrum. I can see no other way of fighting for the right to memory.”
― Faruk Šehić, Knjiga o Uni

“My biography is a string of coincidences, many of my own choosing, but some of which chose me.”
― Faruk Šehić, Knjiga o Uni

“Back then, the world was created anew every morning.”
― Faruk Šehić, Knjiga o Uni

“An incurable spring mood took possession of every thought and every tuft of grass, upsetting the schedules of airborne insects, which collided in the aerial avenues. There was drunkenness in the earth and the air that announced the birth of something splendid. Spring is that miracle that materializes like fireworks in the sky, when the shapeliness of every girl and woman is hormonally magnetic and that little Krakatoa in your trousers is primed to erupt.”
― Faruk Šehić, Knjiga o Uni