Snjezana Scarpetta Isles

“Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Zapamtite, svijet je počeo ići k vragu onog trenutka kad smo dragim ljudima rekli da nemamo vremena s njima popiti kavu.”
― Julijana Matanović, I na početku i na kraju bijaše kava

“Takav je valjda uopće princip dovoljnog razloga. Netko nešto kaže i ti ne vidiš razlog da ga poslušaš, ali ne možeš ga odbiti jer gdje da nadeš kakav razlog protiv?”
― Antun Šoljan, Kratki izlet

“The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the whole world.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose