Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity.
- Aleksandar Hemon

All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
- Aleksandar Hemon

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
- Aleksandar Hemon

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
- Aleksandar Hemon

I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.
- Aleksandar Hemon

History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.
- Aleksandar Hemon

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
- Aleksandar Hemon

We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She kissed my cheek and neck, and I felt the joy of omnipresent love -- everything around me speaking about me with affection, and Mary was listening.
- Aleksandar Hemon

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.
- Aleksandar Hemon

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

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.
- Aleksandar Hemon