“Djetinjstvo u ratu je kad imaš simpatiju u školi i ona pogine od granate."
Jasenko, 1977.”
Source: Djetinjstvo u ratu, Sarajevo 1992 - 1995.
“Sakupljala sam omote čokolada. Imala sam ih više od 300. Nisam probala nijednu; zamišljala sam njihov okus..."
Aida, 1985.”
Source: Djetinjstvo u ratu, Sarajevo 1992 - 1995.
“I can't tell you
Why I loved him or
What it meant. When you
Are a child, you know only
The kind of love your little
Life lacked, so every
Blooming Flower is a field.”
“Childhood contains prophecies of what awaits us as an adult. No doubt about that. Powerful totems are bound up in trifles.”
Source: Byron and Shelley
“Then I stumbled upon Max and Dave Fleischer’s Superman cartoons. They were beautiful, even a small black and white TV. The scene that lit up my brain like a Christmas tree showed Superman use his cape to protect Lois Lane from a cascade of molten metal. Rather than being angry at her for getting in trouble, he was gentle and brave and saved her. I imprinted on that moment like a baby duck and my child’s mind folded around a sudden understanding.
No, Superman was never going to be my father but if I worked at it really hard maybe day could become Superman. (32)”
Source: Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
“The memory of her vanishing felt both unpleasant to encounter and dangerous to hold, but I had no place to put it, no ordered shelf in my mind where it belonged. It remained unmentionable and therefore unclassifiable, which meant I had to carry it, every day, no matter how much it hurt.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“The sofa is a mountain to climb, a valley for sleeping in, a place of ambush for surprise attacks on passing parents.”
Source: Obasan
“Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world”
Source: Just Like Home
“And I think, one of the reasons I've stayed in Italy is that I believe, perhaps erroneously, perhaps sentimentally, perhaps merely in reaction to my own childhood of church bells and rainy weekends - I do believe that kids have a better time here, that adolescence is more fun here. Certainly I never saw a group of people so confident and at ease with themselves and their youth. I wish it for my children.”
Source: An Italian Education
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!”