“ I tried to think of a singularly American superstition. I'd learned a few from the Uncles—something about not letting one's shoes touch the kitchen table—but those were all imported from the Old World… Sara Nović
“ I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly Sara Nović
“ Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good. Sara Nović
“ The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could. Sara Nović
“ Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said. Sara Nović
“ I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical. Sara Nović
