Iva Iva-Nova

“Има едно качество, което притежават само най-силните: умението да се разделяш.”
― Дончо Цончев, Тъга, която излиза

“Всичко на този свят може по някакъв начин да бъде срамно, освен сълзите, които тръгват сами през очите ни.”
― Дончо Цончев

“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being hired to divert with knowledge. I was right. His name was Abdullah Akbahr. With my encouragement, he would write several interesting short stories. One, I remember, was supposedly the autobiography of a talking deer in the National Forest who has a terrible time finding anything to eat in winter and gets tangled in barbed wire during the summer months, trying to get at the delicious food on farms. He is shot by a hunter. As he dies he wonders why he was born in the first place. The final sentence of the story was the last thing the deer said on Earth. The hunter was close enough to hear it and was amazed. This was it:
“What the blankety-blank was that supposed to be all about?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus

“Ако зрялата възраст ти е дала каквото си искал, старостта трябва да е нещо като второ детство, в което започваш пак да играеш, без обаче да има кой да ти нареди да престанеш.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Questa storia