Antonia

“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.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“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.”
― Zoran Žmirić, Hotel Wartburg

“I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don’t have the strength to fight against forgetting.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“People say time is a great healer. They're wrong. Time is simply a great eraser. It rolls on and on regardless, eroding our memories, chipping away at those great big boulders of misery until there's nothing left but sharp little fragments, still painful but small enough to bear.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place