jasper

“A single glance at you that might show them some of the complexity of your being was enough to provoke them to revulsion and panic. The very fact of your existence gutted the image of their straitened world, in which nothing foreign could exist or survive. Indeed, the world for them existed only if it was exactly like them. They feared you with a divine fury, like a punishment arriving in the form of a disease, as if your very existence signaled their end, and they were prepared to do everything to destroy you.”
― Ivana Bodrožić, Sinovi, kćeri