Miriam

“In the end, in the referendum people chose the years when they were young....There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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

“The past settles into afternoons, that’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon when you remember something, at least that’s how it is for me. Everything is in the light.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter