Saša Stanišić

“...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.”

“...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.”

“Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.”

“The silence leans forward.”

“If I were a magician who could make things possible, then pictures could talk while we painted them. If I were a magaician who could make things possible, then houses could keep their promises. And they would have to promise not to lose their roofs or go up in flames. If I were a magician who could make things possible, the scars made in them by bullet holes would close up again over the years.”