Slavenka Drakulić

“What do people think of when they talk about their lives? Do they really see them as an integral whole, as a chronological sequence of events; as something logical, purposeful, completed? What moments do they remember, and how do they remember them? As words? As a series of images and sounds? My life crumbles into a series of pictures, unconnected scenes which comes to mind only occassionally and at random. But there are key events, the acts of chance or fate, which later enable me to construct a logical whole of my life. One such moment was meeting Jose. The other was my decision to see our love through to the very end.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, The Taste of a Man

“لكني لا أعتقد أن الالبانيين كانوا أغبياء عندما فعلوا هذا لكنهم كانوا على درجة من السذاجة كما كانت تملؤهم الكراهية لكي تفهم ما حدث في البانيا يجب أن تضع في ذهنك الخنادق التي كان غرضها الوحيد هو خلق الخوف و تخليده فإذا كنت تعيش محاطًا بهذه الخنادق و عندما تأتي الحرية في النهاية فان الخوف يتحول الي كراهية و عدوان”
― Slavenka Drakulić