Mateja Nikolic

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Ne voli čovek jednog pisca samo zato što ga zabavlja, ili ga pred dileme stavlja, nego što ponekad slučajnošću otvara put njegovim sopstvenim idejama.
Pomaže mu da se izrazi, sam sebe razume, aktivira mentalno.
To može biti i suprotstavljanjem i prihvatanjem.
U svakom slučaju, posredi je nemušti dijalog.
Čitanje mojih knjiga zamišljam kao razgovor sa mnom, ne kao puko slušanje.”
― Borislav Pekić

“‎Ako neko ljubav prema svojoj zemlji, partiji, pokretu, ideji, stavi načelno iznad istine o njoj, ma kakva da je, to nije pravi patriotizam, to nije pravi borac jedne ideje. To je moralna kukavica u potrazi za alibijem.”
― Borislav Pekić