Iva Kereša

“Suglasili smo se mrmljanjem. U tom trenutku osjećali smo svu veličinu zadatka koji smo si zadali i barem za sebe znam da sam se usrdno, nijemo pomolio da budem dorastao kušnjama koje su pred nama. U takvim trenucima čovjek se osjeća blizak sebi.”
― W. E. Bowman

“Let us question these questions. Anger is neither legitimate
nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To
ask, “Is my anger legitimate?” is similar to asking, “Do I have
a right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen
minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides,
what’s the point of getting thirsty when I can’t get anything to
drink now, anyway?”
― Harriet Lerner

“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

“Once she had told him, “The thing about cross-cultural relationships is that you spend so much time explaining. My ex-boyfriends and I spent a lot of time explaining. I sometimes wondered whether we would even have anything at all to say to each other if we were from the same place,” and it pleased him to hear that, because it gave his relationship with her a depth, a lack of trifling novelty. They were from the same place and they still had a lot to say to each other.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie