“I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.”

“I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.”

“I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.”

“I'll put you in a jar on my shelf for a cold, rainy day when I need you the most.”

“These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.”

“Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.”

“Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine Im closer to the dam within me bursting open. Hes undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste o...”

“My body was a Pandoras box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever twitching and shaking. I had a persistent sore throat and had difficulty swallowing...”

“Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine I’m closer to the dam within me bursting open. He’s undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste...”

“Nowadays some people have becomeintimate with thoughtsbut unfriendly with the heartThey have become a clueless eyethat does not see itself”

“Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not.”

“Mrs. P.? Oh no. Shes the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if theres one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, its t...”