Goran

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Nesreća je što niko ne meri sreću prema sebi i svojim potrebama, nego prema drugom, i to prema najsrećnijima. Manija svih ljudi je da usvajaju tuđa merila i za svoj sopstveni život. Prava sreća čovekova biće ako postigne svoje oslobođenje od drugih ljudi; a osloboditi se, to je najpre odvojiti svoju sudbinu od presije tuđih primera, dajući svom zivotu pečat svoje sopstvene prirode i svojih ukusa.”
― Jovan Dučić, Jutra sa Leutara

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is a legend about a bird which sings only once in it's life, more beautifully than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves it's nest, it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, it impales it's breast on the longest, sharpest thorn. But as it is dying, it rises above it's own agony to outsing the Lark and the Nightingale. The Thornbird pays it's life for that one song, and the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles, as it's best is brought only at the cost of great pain; Driven to the thorn with no knowledge of the dying to come. But when we press the thorn to our breast, we know, we understand.... and still, we do it." ~ Colleen McCullough”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds