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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Things are always better in the morning.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Her şeyin geçip gittiğine, yaşadıklarımızın geçmişte kaldığına kim inandırabilir bizi?”
― Barış Bıçakçı, Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Özgürlüğün kimse tarafından sevilmemeyi göze almak olduğunu söylüyordum.”
― Barış Bıçakçı, Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz

“Hareket etmezsen acı üzerinde birikir.”
― Barış Bıçakçı