Boris Gregoric

“Our homeland in the language we spoke, thought, and wrote in, not the place where we were born. We live in the space of our language, and to expand it, it's not enough to just leave; we need to start thinking in other languages.”
― Dmitry Berkut, Clochard

“There was something eternal, something purely Muscovite about Zuyev. It never faded or disappeared, that amazing combination of unarrogant kindness, unaffected goodwill and merry seriousness.”
― Vasily Belov, The Best Is Yet to Come

“И зато пре него што почнем писати о изложбама, о парламентима, и о курсу франка, пустите ме да, још једном, станем уз једно дрво што пупи и штапићем изударам по њему брзојав: да трава зелени, и да се сетите вечности.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Putopisi

“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have tried to say; or tried to do; or everything you are. As a rule, what you are is one simmering, endless longing. And that was how this sentence struck Anna Bae's consciousness, like a quivering arrow of truth.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories