Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

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.

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.

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, what lived invisibly.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

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.

And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game.

we wept within the moment that was dividing our life into before and after, whereby the before was forever foreclosed, while the after was spreading out, like an exploding twinkle-star, into a dark universe of pain.

The cafeteria in the Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world - and forever it shall be - with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich.

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

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