Ana’s Reviews > The Bridge on the Drina > Status Update

'Perhaps she would have been one of those famous women of whom history tells and who have controlled the destinies of great families, of courts or states, always turning everything to good.'

'It is thus that those beings especially gifted by nature often provoke their destiny, boldly and thoughtlessly.'

'The air smelt of fresh melons and roasting coffee. From the great flagstones, still warm from the day's heat, and sprinkled with water, rose moist and scented the special smell of the kapia which filled men with freedom from care and evoked lively fancies.'

'Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.'