Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

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

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

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.

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