“A pair of schoolchildren,pale as rice and loud as peacocks,cut over the road and hurtled down a side street,galloping with joy or else with terror (p. 55).”

“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)”

“Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.”

“I have two minds about everything. Side A(merican) and side B(osnian). I wish I could find a way to drop off the face of the planet and leave my minds behind, get a new one. I dream of disappearing, cutting all ties, becoming a derelict, free to rave. I'd be calmer, happier. Or better, going back to Bosnia and telling no one, not even you. Just live there in the same city, grow a beard, and watch you to go to the market from the café across the street through a pair of sunglasses, never letting you know who I am. (p.43)”

“Free will...is a double edged sword. It can either lead you down the roads of peace, joy and happiness or the roads of darkness and despair!”

“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”