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“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“So, why do you write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me that question."

[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
― Joss Whedon

“Yıldızlar birbiriyle konuşabilir, insan insanla konuşamaz.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

“Gün olur, hiçbir şey yapmak gelmez içimden; ya da : hiçbir şey yapmak gelir.”
― Oruç Aruoba

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“Swift as shadow, short as any dream”
― William Shakespeare

“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Du weißt doch, was ich von der Liebe halte. Wäre sie eine Fahne, ich würde sie erobern oder für sie fallen.”
― Else Lasker-Schüler, Mein Herz: Ein Liebesroman mit Bildern und wirklich lebenden Menschen. Mit Zeichnungen der Autorin aus der Ausgabe von 1912

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Durdu, tereddüd etti.”
― Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil/Sefile

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book

“...Ekrem kütüphane dolusu kitapları okuyarak Nevzat Hanıma aşık olmaya hazırlanmıştı.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

“-Ama doktor, ben hasta değilim...Allah rızası için... size anlattım.
tekrar gözlerini gözlerime dikti en katî sesiyle:
-Hastasınız... diye kesip attı. Psikanaliz çıktığından beri hemen herkes az çok hastadır.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

“Saatin kendisi mekan , yürüyüşü zaman , ayarı insandır...”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

“İnsanların saadet anlayışları da gariptir.Kitaplara bakarsanız,kendilerini dinlerseniz,insanoğlunun esas vasfı aklıdır.Onun sayesinde diğer hayvanlardan ayrılır.Beylik sözüyle,hayata hükmeder.Fakat kendi hayatlarına teker teker bakarsanız bu yapıcı unsurun zerre kadar müdahalesini göremezsiniz.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Bizler ki aynı kitaba baş eğmiş insanlarız. Bizden ala akraba mı olur?”
― Cemil Meriç

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Nurperi Hanım ayaklarındaki terliklerin ucuna kaçtı,
Susup önüne baktı.”
― Sevim Burak, Yanık Saraylar