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Lana Bastašić Biography

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“They looked at us girls with contempt in their eyes, ready to accept a power given to them unfairly. They had no idea what to do with it. And we felt the injustice as if someone else had been given a complicated toy we would have been able to put together in two seconds.”

Boys Girls Male Power

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware.”

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“It’s that particular logic of hers that says gravity is to blame if someone pushes you down a flight of stairs, that all trees were planted so that she could take a piss behind them, and that all roads, no matter how meandering and long, have one connecting dot, the same knot – her. Rome is a joke.”

Logic Egocentrism

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“There’s an order to these things,’ I explained. ‘First the kiss. Then he can grab your butt. Then your boobs. First over the T-shirt, then under. Then you can touch his thing. Then over the leggings. After a year you let him put his hand down your pants. And you haven’t even kissed yet.”

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“You think people choose everything in their lives. Because you have spent your whole life choosing everything.”

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“What happened next?’ ‘He kissed me.’ ‘Down there?! Gross!’ Dead serious, as if you were confirming you had seen aliens land on our planet, you answer, ‘Down. There.”

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“A bloated belly lay where the knees were supposed to be, swallowing my mother like quicksand, turning her into a uniform shape, a pile of mass, with a lock of blonde hair on top of it and two small eyes under the frowning forehead. She was deformed, as if a giant toddler had taken her into his clumsy hands and disfigured her like Play-Doh.”

Mother Deformation

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“There’s no finish line in Bosnia, all roads seem to be equally languid and pointless; they lead you in circles even when it looks like you’re making progress. Driving through Bosnia requires a different dimension: a twisted, cosmic wormhole that doesn’t take you to a real, external goal, but into the gloomy, barely traversable depths of your own being.”

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit