Agamemnon's Daughter Quotes

“We (Albania) had become the high priests of calamity and the shame of the universe.”
― Ismail Kadare, Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories

“El își spusese ca este inutil să încerce să dezlege misterul relației părinților lor cu Partidul. Erau mai puternice decât cele de familie (...) După cum se părea, un asemenea sistem de relații era nou și necunoscut. Mult diferit de cel din secte, el semăna cu cel de familie, pentru că se baza tot pe legăturile de sânge, dar cu o mare diferență: aici nu era vorba de sângele propriu, cel care curgea prin venele unei familii, un sânge care rămâne neschimbat o mie de ani, cum spunea genetica, ci despre o altă categorie de sânge, al altora.era vorba,cu alte cuvinte, despre un sânge străin, pe care l-au vărsat ca intr-un adevărat delir, în numele doctrinei.”
― Ismail Kadare, De dochter van Agamemnon / De Opvolger

“I had lost sight of G. Z. and didn’t want to think about him anymore. He wasn’t the only one who had torn out living flesh so as not to fall to the bottom of a pit, with no means of climbing back up. There were others . . . Maybe I was one of them. We’d taken a path not really knowing where it would lead, not knowing how long it was, and while still on our way, realizing we had taken the wrong road but that it was too late to turn back, every one of us, so as not to be swallowed up by the dark, had started slicing off pieces of our own flesh.”
― Ismail Kadare, Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella & Stories