Dimitra Gkimousi

“But at night, only at night, the skies grew alive and burst open into infinity and the power of that world where a living being is lost, and has no longer the sense of what he is, where he is going or what he wishes or what he must do. Only there one lived truly, serenely and for long; in that space there were no longer words that bound one tragically for one’s whole life, no longer fateful promises or situations from which one could not escape, with the brief time that flows and flows onward inexorably, with death or shame as the only outcome.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“They were pale and worried, with that heavy, fixed expression which can always be seen on the faces of those who have something to lose when faced with unexpected events and important changes.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“All roads were open to them, onward to infinity; on most of those roads they would never even set foot, but nonetheless the intoxicating lust for life lay in the fact that they could (in theory at least) be free to choose which they would and dare to cross from one to the other.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“such as men can only achieve by long years of practice in old-fashioned and decaying administrations in which discretion has long degenerated into insensibility and obedience into cowardice.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina