“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” ------------------------------------------ Louise Glück

“İnsan gördüğünü veya gördüğüne inandığını resmetmez; binlerce sarsılışla, aldığı darbeyi resmeder.” --------------------------- Nicolas de Staël

“Beni bir gün unutacaksan, bir gün bırakıp gideceksen boşuna yorma derdi, boşuna mağaramdan çıkarma beni. Alışkanlıklarımı, özellikle yalnızlığa alışkanlığımı kaybettirme. Boşuna tedirgin etme beni, bu sefer geride bir şey bırakmadım; tasımı tarağımı topladım geldim, neyim var neyim yoksa ortaya döktüm. Beni bırakırsan sudan çıkmış balığa dönerim.” --- Tutunamayanlar / Oğuz Atay

“Chaos is being yourself.” --------------- Emil M. Cioran

“Die Berliner sind unfreundlich und rücksichtslos, ruppig und rechthaberisch, Berlin ist abstoßend, laut, dreckig und grau, Baustellen und verstopfte Straßen, wo man geht und steht – aber mir tun alle Menschen leid, die nicht hier leben können.” /     “The Berliners are unfriendly and inconsiderate, gruff and self-opinionated, Berlin is repulsive, loud, dirty and grey, construction works and blocked streets wherever you go. But I feel sorry for all those people who cannot live here.” --- Anneliese Bödecker                    (www.fragments.berlin)

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ------------------------------ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

“You don’t know distance until you have shared your bed with somebody who is falling out of love with you.” --------------------------- The Distance / Beau Taplin

“All the hardest, coldest people you meet, were once as soft as water. And that is the tragedy of living.”

“Bir yeri, gerçekten ve toptan terk etmeyen, yeni bir yola çıkamaz. (Tanrı Lut kavmine boşuna dememişti ya, ‘Geriye bakmayacaksın’ diye..)” ------ Oruç Aruoba

“Peki, ya bütün bu yolların bir sonu varsa? İnsan ana babasına, kocasına, ülkesine, aşkına ihanet edebilirdi ama ana baba, koca, ülke ve aşk elden gidince - ihanet edilecek ne kalıyordu geriye? Ya bu boşluk, bütün ihanetlerin varacağı yerse?” --- The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera 

“She buried her ears into the calm of his heartbeat, and in a matter of seconds: fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest.” --------- Christopher Poindexter

“Cruel mothers are still mothers. Mothers are humans. Who sometimes give birth to their pain. Instead of children.” ------------ Nayyirah Waheed

“If a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams. We are awake, the city is asleep. And we are all stumbling through the city’s dream.” ------------------ The Absolute Sandman / Neil Gaiman