Vera

“Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales

“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

“No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales

“I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you?

I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’

and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’

Nothing.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales