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“Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Svinje znaju red, za razliku od nekih ljudi.”
― Vladislava Vojnović, Kozje uši

“Stojanka joj gleda ruke i drago joj što Sofija ume da kruni. Ne zato što će joj krunjenje trebati u životu, nego zato što svakom treba da ume. Bilo šta. Pa i da kruni kukuruz.”
― Vladislava Vojnović, Kozje uši

“Contrary to popular belief and Pinterest, not everything is made better by being sorted into containers. Socks don’t need their own little cubbies. They’re socks—they’re not going to wander off or get into fights.”
― Messie Condo, Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t