Beogradski Fantom Quotes & Sayings

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else. — Martin Amis

Flying to Monterey I had a sharp apprehension of the many times before when I had, like Lincoln Steffens, "come back," flown west, followed the sun, each time experiencing a lightening of spirit as the land below opened up, the checkerboards of the midwestern plains giving way to the vast empty reach between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada; then home, there, where I was from, me, California. It would be a while before I realized that "me" is what we think when our parents die, even at my age, who will look out for me now, who will remember me as I was, who will know what happens to me now, where will I be from. — Joan Didion

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else. — John Lubbock

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel. — Elizabeth McCracken

Everything is instincts when returning kicks. — Dante Hall

You're real, he whispered. I had thought him pale already. Now all vestiges of color drained from his face. — Diana Gabaldon

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives. — Melina Marchetta