Quote
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
Quote
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
More from Aleksandar Hemon
“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing...”
0 likes
“I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.”
0 likes
“I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiven...”
0 likes
Discover More
“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”
“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”
“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”
“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me,...”