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“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Ovo je zemlja gde se u svemu kasni. Samo se umire pre vremena.”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

“Jednom mi je u rano jutro, iguman nikšićkog manastira, stari Koprivica, nazdravio rečima: ''Dabogda se cijeli život penjao uz brdo i da Bog da nikad na vrh ne izađeš.''
U prvom trenu beh zatečen, kao da čuh kletvu, a onda shvatih plemenitost želje. Sa vrha se nema kud više, može samo nadole.”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

“A šta je drugo život nego čekanje smrti? Kao u nekom Čistilištu. Kao u velikoj čekaonici osluškujemo spoljašnjost.”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

“Da li muka kriv – nevin ostaje i posle presude, ili se čovek pomiri sa nekom kaznom, pa onda jednostavno broji mesece i godine, ne tražeći od života i vremena koje prolazi neki zanimljiviji izlaz? Kao kad se voziš liftom, pa onako glupo čekaš, buljeći u nepoznatog, koji oseća istu neprijatnost. Ti tada ne živiš, samo čekaš da stigneš do nekog drugog nivoa, gde će se tek nastaviti život. Držiš smerno ruke ispred sebe, preko šlica, možda zviždućeš, pevušiš nešto. Za to vreme oči kao da ispituju krov lifta koji je obično jako zanimljiv. Možda ćeš se priglupo osmehnuti, ako ti se oči sretnu sa nepoznatim, pa čak i vrlo bistro i bitno konstatovati: Vruće danas.
Da li je moguće tako provesti i više godina u takvom, zaglavljenom liftu?”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“Nažalost, odrasli smo u podrugljivoj sredini, gde se lako žigošu ljudi, a teško pokazuje ljubav.”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
― Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

“My heart is so tired”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“But of course, those who live in memories are never really dead”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Čudim se onome ko prodaje vino! Pitam se šta će bolje kupiti za te pare?”
― Momo Kapor, Una

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!