Zafer Şenocak > Quotes

“We are like guests in this world. I do not mean this in the worn-out mystical sense. I mean it literally. In the course of every visit a point comes when one feels it is time to go. If one misses this moment, things become problematic. One's hosts try to persuade one to stay the night. The last Underground train has gone, topics of conversation run out. One has too much to drink, finds oneself in an uncomfortable bed, can be confident of never being invited back again. I did not want to be an uninvited guest in Berlin, nor to become a tolerated long-term guest.”
― Zafer Şenocak, Gefährliche Verwandtschaft

“I myself was surprised that after spending three years in American I called it my "home". But behind this observation lies a rule. I always call the place where I last lived home. In Berlin I was at home in Munich. Now, after coming back to Berlin, my home is America. To be at home in a place I must have left it at least once.”
― Zafer Şenocak, Gefährliche Verwandtschaft

“But the body and its limitations make a person everywhere the same. In view of the numberless mental differences between people, this is reassuring.”
― Zafer Şenocak, Gefährliche Verwandtschaft