Aleksandar Hemon, The Book Of My Lives Quotes

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.