Luka Ruklić

“But what if all that isn’t true?” the girl who was at that moment behind his back was to say to him two years later; an enormous span of time—Bruno thought—because it was not measured in months or even in years, but rather, as is peculiar to this class of beings, in spiritual catastrophes and days of utter loneliness and inexpressible sadness; days that lengthen and become distorted, like shadowy phantoms on the walls of time.”
― Ernesto Sabato, Sobre héroes y tumbas

“Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status play over there, a tintinnabulation of tribal identification, a rumble of threatening antagonism, a tantara of wit, a parp of sexual allure, a crescendo of unfair trouble, a warping and wefting hum as the dramatic question is posed and reposed in new and interesting ways – all instruments by which masses of brains can be captivated and manipulated.”
― Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

“Would anyone be waiting for us, on those vast fields?”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, Endless Field

“I was sure my absence would affect him more than any reproaches: there is no possible reply to absence.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed