Lejla M.

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
― Max Planck, The New Science

“Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što prećutiš.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

“Reluctantly, my eyes met his. What I saw there explained everything- the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe what I saw by its effect on me. Every woman should be looked at in such a way, at least once in her life. With a longing that cannot be contained- with love that goes beyond mere feeling because it transforms and- like the verse of the poem he had read- it dissolves, as an offering, a gift. I felt my face flush and waves of knowing suffused every pore, every cell of my being. I was loved. And in that love, I felt beauty- my own, unrealized until that moment, suddenly rising to consciousness in a way that made everything in me come alive to the beauty all around me. Nothing more needed to be said.”
― Nafisa Haji, The Sweetness of Tears