Nikoleta L. > Nikoleta's Quotes

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all–no one’s around to write horror stories.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

“...but they did not know anything holier than the world, they did not seek a power greater than nature.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling

“Onima koji kažu da novac nije važan reci slobodno da jedu govna”
― Srđan Valjarević, Dnevnik druge zime

“Elena’s eye lit with a skewed enthusiasm. “Dear God, Miles. Metzov—Oser—Ungari—all in a row—you sure are hard on your commanding officers. What are you going to do when the time comes to let them all out?” Miles shook his head mutely. “I don’t know.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“I have seen him laugh in pure delight, standing on the dock at Vorkosigan Surleau and yelling instructions over the water, the morning I first sailed, dumped, and righted the skimmer by myself. I have seen him weep till his nose ran, more dead drunk than you were yesterday, Ahn, the night we got the word Major Duvallier was executed for espionage. I have seen him rage, so brick-red we feared for his heart, when reports came in fully detailing the stupidities that led to the last riots in Solstice. I have seen him wandering around Vorkosigan House at dawn in his underwear, yawning and prodding my sleepy mother into helping him find two matching socks. He's not like anything, Ahn. He's the original.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

“It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was the first and final battleground; the stuff in between was just noise.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“Nada ne može biti lažna", odgovorila mu je. "Nada nije istina ili laž, nego je stanje i volja." (...) "Nada je potrebna, jer bez nade čovjek zapada u očaj i bezvolju. Postaje kao ti - ljuštura koja nema vjeru u budućnost.”
― Želimir Periš, Mladenka kostonoga

“Orah je zlo stablo. Guši sve oko sebe. Iz korijenja i lišća luči smolu od koje nevine biljke ne mogu proklijati. Oko oraha ne raste ni trava. Orah konkurenciju ne prihvaća, toliko je oholo to stablo. I plod mu je zastrašujući. Razbij ga kamenom i pod drvenastom ljuskom razotkrit će se sićušna skulptura ljudskog mozga, a ima li na svijetu strašnije stvari od čovječjeg uma?”
― Želimir Periš, Mladenka kostonoga

“Gila je centar za krizne situacije. Kad institucije zakažu ili su nedostupne, ide se kod Gile.”
― Želimir Periš, Mladenka kostonoga

“Gila je, iz učiteljeve perspektive, savršena subverzija ovog sustava, ukorijenjena duboko u tradiciji koju narod prihvaća, jer od svih stvari na svijetu narod uvijek najviše štuje tradiciju, pa makar ona bila osmišljena prošlog ljeta.”
― Želimir Periš, Mladenka kostonoga