Oksana Zabuzhko

"That’s what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it."

"It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed."

"Ukrainians are fighting to free Europe from the spectre of totalitarianism"

"We have behind us a whole century of mass madness. What have we learned from it if we do not recognize history repeating itself in a new guise?"

"If authors weren’t translated, it doesn’t mean they didn’t exist”"