Laura

“Ali svijet je dobio priču po svojoj mjeri. Selektivno suosjećamo, selektivno pamtimo, selektivno se veselimo. Draža nam je priča o patnji nego stvarna patnja.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Što se mene tiče, voljeti se može samo nekoga čija te odsutnost može koštati razuma.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Ostala sam mirno ležati, kao mrtva, i čekala da mi konačno netko javi što se dogodilo. To je najgore, sad kad se sjetim, u hladnu zoru biti siguran da se dogodilo nešto strašno, a imati nade da će sve biti dobro. A taman je postalo skoro savršeno. Savršenstvo postoji, bila sam tamo. Samo, kad se dođe do njega, ono traje jedan tren. Nakon njega kreće polagani raspad. Ili u mom slučaju suludo brzi.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“After class, I wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive and young on a beautiful day; the sky a deep deep painful blue, wind scattering the red and yellow leaves in a whirlwind of confetti.
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
That night I wrote in my journal: 'Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors. Someone – was it van Gogh? – said that orange is the color of insanity. Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.”
― Donna Tartt , The Secret History