Polirom Quotes

“„S-au gândit apoi că e posibil ca în după-amiaza aceea totul să se fi răsturnat cu susul în jos doar pentru că oamenii umblă năuci prin lume până îşi găsesc cochiliile. Iar când se recunosc, nu mai contează câte piedici le cresc în faţă şi câte planuri trebuie schimbate”.”
― Ana Maria Sandu, Pereţi subţiri

“If you need to clear the air with these gentlemen, better remove yourself from the car!”
Julia’s boyfriend, or whatever he was, didn’t seem like much. I had fought more fearsome men in my life. When I heard him mentioning my mother, whom he had started bespattering in something resembling the English language, calling her “a Norwegian whore”, I opened the door and headbutted him without the slightest hesitation. I yelled at the top of my lungs too, so that bitch, Julia, could hear me loud and clear:

“I’m an Irish man, you fucking asshole, I’m from Belfast, we would stick some Semtex up your ass"

(Doina Rusti - Logodnica/The The Fiancée, Polirom, 2017)”
― Doina Rusti, Logodnica

“She did not seem beautiful to me, especially in the beginning, but even for a long time after that, and then not until later did I come to realise that she was a jewel dropped into the murky waters of a pond, completely out of place in the Gorgani slum, where she seemed to have fallen from the skies, just like the flying Hasan Çelebi, whose name was given to a bridge. “ (Doina Ruști - Homeric)”
― Doina Ruști

“And I understood that not only was I fated to see them again, searching for each other with the same looks which clearly showed that love’s fiery sphere had started to grow between them, but there was also something else, meant only for me.  Without wanting to, I had entered the realm of shadows, where you cannot be seen.  They were the only ones that could be seen, while I, until then at the centre of the story, was now drifting through the treacherous fog of strange desires, like a poor fly blown about in the wind.” (Homeric)”
― Doina Ruști