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01Undated

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

Saša Stanišić / quote

02Undated

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

Saša Stanišić / quote

03Undated

...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.

Saša Stanišić / quote

04Undated

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.

Saša Stanišić / quote

05Undated

The silence leans forward.

Saša Stanišić / quote