Lara

“Samo su dva iskonska straha, jesi znala to? Rodiš se sa strahom od glasnih zvukova i strahom od padanja. Ozbiljno, imaš na internetu. Ostalih stotinu fobija naučiš od bližnjih. Neke te čuvaju od opasnosti, da. Ali većina je tu samo da zbija šale s našim životima.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Ime te bolesti je:
Mašta.
To je -- crv, koji grize crne bore na čelu. To je groznica koja vas tjera da trčite sve dalje -- iako to 'dalje' počinje tamo gdje završava sreća. To je -- posljednja barikada na putu prema sreći.
Radujte se: ona je već raznesena.
Put je slobodan.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Jednom kada u školskim knjigama bude pisalo U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko, kad novine na naslovnicama objave U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko, kad na televiziji obznane U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko, kad generali izađu pred javnost s vojnom tajnom U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko, kad s oltara i s minareta daju uputu U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko, kad ratni veteran svojoj dragoj dok leže goli kao djeca šapne U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko, a ni romantično, kad režiseri snime holivudski film U ratovanju nema ništa herojsko (jer četa glupana u stvarnom ratu bolje prođe negoli četa mudrih), tada će to uistinu biti, nakon puno vremena, važna vijest.”
― Olja Savičević Ivančević, Pjevač u noći

“Look, look at my country, look at my Kabul, my city, what is left of my city? The streets are as bare as mountains now, the buildings are as ragged as mountains and as bare and empty of life, there is no life here only fear, we do not live in the buildings now, we live in terror in the cellars in the caves in the mountains, only God can save us now, only order can save us now, only God's Law harsh and strictly administered can save us now, only The Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice can save us now, only terror can save us from ruin, only neverending war, save us from terror and neverending war, save my wife they are stoning my wife, they are chasing her with sticks, save my wife save my daughter from punishment by God, save us from God, from war, from exile, from oil exploration, from no oil exploration, from the West, from the children with rifles, carrying stones, only children with rifles, carrying stones, can save us now.”
― Tony Kushner