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Linda said:
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Obreht is an interesting young author. The work itself is astounding in the way a debut novel can be, very curious to finish my reading and then form an opinion.
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“You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.”
― Willow Trees Don't Weep
― Willow Trees Don't Weep
“What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.”
― Willow Trees Don't Weep
― Willow Trees Don't Weep
“Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall.”
― Willow Trees Don't Weep
― Willow Trees Don't Weep
“السجن فقط ليس الجدران الأربعة، وليس الجلاد فقط أو التعذيب ، إنه بالدرجة الأولى : خوف الإنسان ورعبه ، حتى قبل أن يدخل السجن ، وهذا بالضبط مايريده الجلاد ، وما يجعل الإنسان سجيناً دائماً”
― الآن هنا.. أو شرق المتوسط مرة أخرى
― الآن هنا.. أو شرق المتوسط مرة أخرى
“But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?”
― The Island of the Day Before
― The Island of the Day Before
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