Elena

“You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“Soon after that we would go our separate ways, grow cold, forget one another, the rebels would grow tame as teaching assistants in the universities, the sworn bachelors and party animals would be pushing baby carriages and zoning out in front of their TV, the hippies would get regular haircuts at the local barbershop.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“Happy countries are all alike; each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way, as has been written.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“It's well known that our inept homegrown police of all eras have always shown unerring taste in poets and writers - they always manage to kill the most talented and leave the most mediocre.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter