Bianca Mogos

“Mi-ar fi plăcut să o ascult, deși mi-e clar că nu ne putem auzi părinții decât atunci când trecem de 20 de ani. Îi auzim când nu mai sunt vocea din capul nostru, ci devin o voce din exterior. Când ne întoarcem la ei pentru că vrem, nu pentru că nu avem încotro.”
― Laura Ionescu, Nu te găsesc pe nicăieri

“I don’t want to leave. Leaving makes you forget things. It makes you forget people.”
― Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

“I accepted the different explanations of what had caused this or that, how the international community had warned about such-and-such decision, how the Balkans had long had an explosive history—how one must factor in the ethnic and religious divisions that pervaded that corner of the world, and the legacy of socialism too. I accepted the story I heard on foreign media: that the Albanian Civil War could be explained not by the collapse of a flawed financial system but by the long-standing animosities between different ethnic groups, the Ghegs in the north and the Tosks in the south. I accepted it despite its absurdity, despite the fact that I didn’t know what I counted as, whether both or neither. I accepted it although my mother was a Gheg and my father a Tosk, and throughout their married life only their political and class divisions had ever mattered, never the accents with which they spoke. I accepted it, as we all did, as we accepted the liberal road map we had followed like a religious calling, as we accepted that its plan could be disrupted only by outside factors—like the backwardness of our own community norms—and never be beset by its own contradictions.”
― Lea Ypi, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

“Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war.”
― Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women