“When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children.”
― My Heart
― My Heart
“The two of us weren’t made for this world, because there’s nothing in it we want to possess.”
― My Heart
― My Heart
“We romanticize the past with our period dramas and glossy film adaptations. A bit like we do with nature. Nature is violent, unpredictable and unforgiving. Eat or be eaten. That's nature. However much Attenborough or Coldplay you wrap it up in.”
― The Hiding Place
― The Hiding Place
“Smrknem se i zagledam starome u oči. U njima vidim golemu prazninu, kao da je nakon pustih godina konačno shvatio gdje je problem. Kao da mu je sinulo kako naš odnos nije takav zato što sam ja to izabrao, već on. Kao da je shvatio kako nije na djetetu da uspostavlja odnos s roditeljem, već je suprotno.”
― Hotel Wartburg
― Hotel Wartburg
“Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?”
― My Heart
― My Heart
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