Petra

“I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Ljudi zaziru od nas. Izgleda da vjeruju da se zona smrti pridržava granica koje oni ucrtaju na zemljopisnim kartama.”
― Alina Bronsky, Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe

“Ništa na ovome svijetu nije gore nego biti mlad...Ali od šesnaeste postaje ozbiljno. Zapravo si još dijete, ali svi u tebi vide odraslu osobu koju je lakše gaziti nego nekoga starijeg i iskusnijeg. Nitko te više ne štiti. Neprekidno ti tovare nove zadaće na vrat. Nitko te ne pita jesi li shvatila išta od toga što od sada trebaš raditi.”
― Alina Bronsky, Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe