Katja

“The thing that impressed me most was that Eddie should have been bitter and he was not. He had used the incident for his own entertainment and mine. Whether he also used it for my edification I do not know. But I thought about this old man then. And his people. Thought about how they’d been slaughtered, almost wiped out, forced to live on settlements that were more like concentration camps, then poked, prodded, measured and taped, had photos of their sacred business printed in colour in heavy academic anthropological texts, had their sacred secret objects stolen and taken to museums, had their potency and integrity drained from them at every opportunity, had been reviled and misunderstood by almost every white in the country, and then finally left to rot with their cheap booze and our diseases and their deaths, and I looked at this marvellous old half-blind codger laughing his socks off as if he had never experienced any of it, never been the butt of a cruel ignorant bigoted contempt, never had a worry in his life, and I thought, OK old man, if you can, me too.”
― Robyn Davidson, Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback

“You can’t wait for the world to be perfect before you start living in it.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“Ubil se bom, pa je. Napisal bom poslovilno pismo; ljudje namreč hočejo vedeti za vzrok vsake stvari. "Ubil se bom iz dveh razlogov: prvič, letos so se pojavili komarji zelo zgodaj, ko ugasim luč, mi začnejo brneti okoli glave, ne prenesem. Drugič, ne razumem, zakaj bi moral živeti.”
― Vitomil Zupan, Komedija človeškega tkiva