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„suddenly

love, who here speaks of love, love around these parts is death
were you to choose love you'd be choosing death or death would choose you, but you're always the last to find out, before the pomegranates ripen and crack“

„shade is shade, you notice it only when you need its shelter or when it stands in your way“

„you're too capricious
you won't amount to anything
it's all right, my mother says to Sále, my father used to tell me the same thing
she tears a slice of bread in two, smiles, and hands
him the bigger half“

„the most precious metal in Albania is freedom“

„come on, Matija, they mutter into their collars, avoiding my eyes, they don't wish to see the death of the father reflected in the eyes of his daughter, they'd rather see death in the eyes of the man than in the eyes of his daughter, they want to lie in their beds tonight unperturbed, yet I have to stand, self-possessed, I clear my throat and I ask, what have you brought me
a wound or death“