Moni

“Pa dobro, sva ta viša matematika nije nego obična glupost. Šta ima čovjek od toga što može da riješi svaki problem više matematike, a ne zna da zaviri drugom čovjeku ni za desetinu milimetra ispod kože? Nekada sam mislio da mi je otvoren čitav svemir, a sada stojim tu i ne shvaćam ni ono što sam uvijek mislio da mi je najbliže i što najviše volim.”
― Milan Begović, Bez trećega

“At that moment I knew what the plebs were, much more clearly than when, years earlier, she had asked me. The plebs were us. The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts. The plebs were my mother, who had drunk wine and now was leaning against my father’s shoulder, while he, serious, laughed, his mouth gaping, at the sexual allusions of the metal dealer. They were all laughing, even Lila, with the expression of one who has a role and will play it to the utmost.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Pero moje sanja, sanja o junacima pobjednicima tiranije, o bojovnicima ljudske sreće - o poštenjacima koji svoje uvjerenje ne daju ni za kruh, ni za zlato, ni za medalje - ni za što.”
― Marija Jurić Zagorka, Grička vještica I - VII