Zlata Filipović > Quotes

“...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.”
― Zlata Filipović, The Freedom Writers Diary

“My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.”
― Zlata Filipović

“The sea? What's that?”
― Zlata Filipović

“How you can come to love an animal! She doesn't talk, but she speaks with her eyes, her paws, her meows, and I understand her.”
― Zlata Filipović, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

“It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all look like people, there's no difference. They all have arms, legs and heads, they walk and talk, but now there's "something" that wants to make them different.”
― Zlata Filipović, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

“It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.”
― Zlata Filipović, Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq