Ena Prokić

“Ali nekad, kasno uvečer, dok na neudobnom kauču vrti programe na televiziji ne bi li nekako usnula, uspijeva pomisliti da je problem baš u tom preživljavanju. Sve je ona preživjela dosad, sa svime se nakako izborila, ali možda, samo možda, bolje bi bilo da nekad jednostavno nije preživjela. Da je pukla, slomila se, dopustila da je boli dulje od dan, dva, pet. Da je boli mjesecima. Da je boli pa što bude. Da jednostavno prestane preživljavati.”
― Iva Ušćumlić, Omara

“Tu m’as dit ‘’Je t’aime’’, je t’ai dit ‘’Attends’’. J’allais dire ‘’Prends-moi’’, tu m’as dit ‘’Va-t-en”
― françois truffaut, Jules et Jim

“And so if we want to see real change in this world, she continued, adjusting the incline on her running machine until I, who walked on a neighboring one, seemed to be watching her dash up the side of Kilimanjaro, well, then we ourselves have to be the ones to do it, yes, we have to be the change we want to see. By “we” she meant people like herself, of financial means and global reach, who happen to love freedom and equality, want justice, feel an obligation to do something good with their own good fortune. It was a moral category but also an economic one. And if you followed its logic all the way to the end of the revolving belt, then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing [...]”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“A character at unity with itself –that performs what it intends, subdues every counteracting impulse, and has no visions beyond the distinctly possible –is strong by its very negations.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss