Mars Quotes

“Writing that collected dust versus writing that resurrected the dead—there was no doubt about which I could get behind.”
― Asja Bakić, Mars: Stories

“I knew nothing about Passions, the novel whose launch party Vanja and I were both attending. I was told it was good, but I tended to be suspicious of anything I hadn’t written myself.”
― Asja Bakić, Mars: Stories

“When I was six years old, I fell off the kitchen counter and landed on my right hand, breaking it. At the emergency room, I sat next to a little girl with a bandaged leg. She said she’d been playing with an ax and the blade had fallen right on her foot. I never complained again about pain. Pain became superfluous to me; it was reserved for others.”
― Asja Bakić, Mars: Stories

“The rocks were beautiful, but with no one to throw them at, they too had eventually become unbearable. ”
― Asja Bakić, Mars

“I always read dystopian fiction carefully,” I ranted on, “but it never occurred to me that I’d actually experience it one day.”
― Asja Bakić, Mars

“At the base of the hill, near the well, there’s treasure buried, huge pots of gold. When the aliens come to abduct me, I’m going to dig them up and bring them to Mars.”
― Asja Bakić, Mars

“While I was killing him, I had to wipe my mouth with my sleeve every now and then because I couldn’t stop salivating.”
― Asja Bakić, Mars