Marek Hłasko

"I want you to live. Think of her, Mike. Think of her, Mike. Think about her cunt; think about her mouth and breasts, Mike. Its not true what she told you. She was always fine with you, Mike. Mike, you know me and you know I dont lie. Mike, you have to believe me again. Mike, do you remember how wet she is every time you enter her? And how does her belly tighten? Mike, why dont you believe me? But there was no one left to believe him; He kicked his legs apart and kicked him in the crotch until he had no strength left."

"I myself have made love only once in my life; that was eleven years ago, and after that I didnt love anyone for a minute, even though I constantly tried to create illusions for myself."

"When someone starts stomping on your toes for the first time, you think its not true, and then youre surprised that a person can do such a thing to another person. But you dont really have time to think about it, because they are urinating on your face and you again think that its not true, that this man straddled over you has the same heart, kidneys and the same shame."

"On Saturday, the city center looks the same as on any other day of the week. There are just more drunk people; in pubs and bars, buses and gates - the smell of digested alcohol hangs everywhere. On Saturday, the city loses its hard-working face - on Saturday, the city has a drunken face."

"I dont trust anyone who has a pussy and knows the value of money."

"Are you playing dad and mom? Enjoy!"

"The life Ive been given is just a story; but how I tell it is my business."

"To this day Im not sure if theres any difference between physics and algebra and math and chemistry, and Ill never know. I dont know if forty-nine can even be divided by any number; If by some miracle it succeeds, it wont be for me."

"They lay tired of love and heat, they were both young and pretty."

"The world is divided into two halves, but in one of them it is unlivable, in the other it is unbearable."

"But I wonder why I was wandering around like that. Instead of celebrating love, instead of gushing about it, I was so nervous because I thought that I would just make it, that I would always be young, that Marek would always be young, that the world would wait for us. And nothing waited and the world was rushing at a dizzying pace."

"And thats why they probably invented marriage and the oath of fidelity, because they knew that nothing in the world fits together as badly as a man and a woman."