Iva Iva-Nova

“- Учудва ли те това?
- Всичко ме учудва. Съвсем всичко.
- Значи си жива.”
― Дончо Цончев, Черното пиле

“Защото светът се оказва така разочароващ, когато установиш колко е тънка тъканта му, колко грубо е сплетена илюзията, колко профански е зашит откъм гърба. Защото само тайнството и забравата го правеха поносим. Защото без съня, който всекидневно те откъсва от реалността, нищо не може да се издържи. Да не виждаш пътя бе тъжно. Да си буден бе тъжно. Познанието, клети Бартелс, е отчайващо. Защо, Бартелс? Защото времето винаги неумолимо си отива.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt: Interpretation

“Имунната система на нашата планета се опитва да се отърве от хората.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“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