“You don’t grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
“Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory. Each nation demands that is borders revert to where they were at the exact time when its own empire had reached its zenith of ancient medieval expansion.”
― Balkan Ghosts
― Balkan Ghosts
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