Giovanni

“Certo che ti farò del male. Certo che me ne farai. Certo che ce ne faremo. Ma questa è la condizione stessa dell’esistenza. Farsi primavera, significa accettare il rischio dell’inverno. Farsi presenza, significa accettare il rischio dell’assenza.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“...when people don't like you, you don't like yourself either, that's the way it goes, you learn to give certain answers to certain questions because that's the answer the person asking the question wants to hear, and before long you are inevitably caught up in a web of lies, lies that people are forced into telling because the truth doesn't make an impression, because the truth always fails, because it's never good enough.

What can you do if your story, which is so tragic that you imagine it will awaken people's sympathy, instead elicits hatred and violence?”
― Pajtim Statovci, Crossing

“I wouldn’t yet realize that all human activity is motivated by the desire to be better. People move from one country to the next to secure better living conditions, and nothing is said or done unselfishly, every action entails the promise of a greater tomorrow, the wish that I’ll get something I want, something I think I can’t live without.”
― Pajtim Statovci, Crossing

“like Do you realize how narrow-minded it is to think that there are only two genders in the world, two types of people, men and women?”
― Pajtim Statovci, Crossing