Kenan Orhan > Quotes

“Life becomes a silt around your relationships, and before you know it, you’re half buried and unable to adjust.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation

“Were there any auguries of her death coming like grey birds in migration?”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation

“don’t know why I said any of this. It felt like I might say whatever popped into my head. I was talking as a way to keep other thoughts from cropping up, so I didn’t have to think them and then speak them into the cramped space of my car.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation

“I still didn't understand why it was here but increasingly I found the cell was just what I needed.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation: A Novel

“I was impressed, I suppose, that so many people had come together without hurting one another. I was impressed that they had lasted so long in their barricades and camps, had repulsed or ignored a handful of half-hearted attempts by police to clear them out, but I could not find any desire to join them.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation

“My father told me they were on guard for the future. He said this was the creation of a country – no! this was a country; a country is a constant struggle.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation

“Later I was filled with so much regret, thinking back on it, because these were the times of dignity, or posterity, or legacy, or whatever you want to call the vestigial moments of a life. I could have talked to him and made meaning of things with him.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation