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“Počela sam da sanjam kako joj telefoniram; telefon je postao Milena, a Milena telefon. Milena s prijemnikom i rupicama prljavozelene boje; i kada sam, jedanaestog dana, uspela da je dobijem, to je bilo kao da sam, umesto slušalice, u drhtavoj znojavoj ruci držala Milenu, celu; začuvši njen glas, istog časa mi je postalo jasno da je nemoguće saobraćati s bogom ako i sami niste bog!”
― Biljana Jovanović

“I don’t know what I’m saying. I guess what I mean is that sometimes I
don’t know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other
days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo
of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It is for the killer to kill, the fighter to fight, and the bird to sing. As for me, I halt my quest for figurative language. I bring my search for meaning to a complete stop because the essence of war is to degrade symbols and bring human relations, space, time, and the elements back to a state of nature, making us rejoice over water gushing on the road from a broken pipe.”
― Mahmoud Darwish