“They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.”
― The Bridge on the Drina
― The Bridge on the Drina
“Your turn.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“it’s time I fear.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.”
― The Bridge on the Drina
― The Bridge on the Drina
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