Sanja

“In this country, in one way or another, everyone had bean, was, or would be part of the regime. "The worst thing that can happen to a Dominican is to be intelligent or competent," he had once heard Agustín Cabral say ...and the words had been etched in his mind: "Because sooner or later Trujillo will call upon him to serve the regime, or his person, and when he calls, one is not permitted to say no." [Agustín Cabral] was proof of this truth....As Estrella Sadhalá always said, the Goat had taken from people the sacred attribute given to them by God: their free will.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

“Esa noche creí que había perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca más podría reírme ni perseguir una ilusión. Pero nunca más es mucho tiempo.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Nisi ti loš, nego su te zaveli. Upa si u loše društvo. Naplaćuješ struju ljudima. A je li ti ikad palo na pamet, dok si čoviku naplaćiva struju, da bi on moga bit tvoj
ćaća? Ili tvoja mater? Znadu li ti ćaća i mater šta ti radiš, Nenade? Jesu te oni tako odgajali, da naplaćivaš struju? Znadu li oni di si ti sad razbojniče?”
― Ante Tomić, Čudo u Poskokovoj Dragi