Nibi

“There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us - we have our own languages hidden in our carry-on luggage, in our cosmetics bags, only ever using English when we travel, and then only in foreign countries, to foreign people. It's hard to imagine, but English is the real language! Oftentimes their only language. They don't have anything to fall back on or to turn to in moments of doubt. How lost they must feel in the world, where all instructions, all the lurics of all the stupidest possible songs, all the menus, all the excruciating pamphlets and brochures - even the buttons in the lift! - are in their private language. They may be understood by anuone at any moment, whenever they open their mouths. They must have to write things down in special codes. Wherever they are, people have unlimited access to them - they are accessible to everyone and everything! I heard there are plans in the works to get them some little language of their own, one of those dead ones no one else is using anyway, just so that for once they can have something just for them.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Żydzi jeszcze nie uporali się ze swoją polską sprawą. Z niemiecką tak, ale to było łatwiejsze. Łatwiej wybacza się zadawaną śmierć, niż poniżenie. Sprawy z Polakami to pamięć o poniżeniu i odtrącone uczucie. Nic nie rodzi większej agresji i trwalszej nienawiści niż odtrącona, niepotrzebna miłość.”
― Hanna Krall, Hipnoza

“Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Wschodnioeuropejscy Żydzi stworzyli barwny świat. Mieli język i literaturę, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemieślników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, żarty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania głowy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który brał się z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego świata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie dają wyobrażenia o nim.”
― Hanna Krall, Dowody na istnienie