Quotes from Slavenka Drakuli?

It is not true that you feel something when you are in an accident. There is no feeling, no thought. You do and you do not exist, like a particle of dust swirling in the air. You see the blue sky and you are part of it, you are a part of the air, the water, the greenery in the park. You drift in a silence where you cannot even hear the beating of your own heart. Isn't that the experience of nothingness?

He was our commander not because someone appointed him but because we picked him to be our commander. He was a brave man, tall, six feet eight perhaps, and strong. He wasn't afraid of anything. We looked up to him, all of us. And when I saw him lying there, without legs, crippled and totally helpless … I felt terrible. - Did it perhaps occur to you to quit at that moment? - No, it didn't, once you're inside you cant get out, you cant quit

And even those who would like to believe in egalitarianism must ask themselves why we have to be equal only in poverty.

Ali kad sam preživjela trenutak one jezive usamljenosti na rubu ludila, znala sam da ?u se izvu?i. Uostalom, i bez emocija se može sasvim normalno živjeti. Kad ti iš?upaju srce, uklone ti sposobnost da patiš. Godinama nakon toga, osje?am se bolje, mirnije gledam na svoju situaciju. Još uvijek imam prijatelje, izlazim, uživam u razgovorima i izložbama.