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“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better then, as if my privacy extended all around me like a barrier protecting my body.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“At times I thought this was the worst misery I had experienced in my life, but it was also a very shallow misery, which at any time could have been relieved completely by a word from him and transformed into idiotic happiness.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,

die and be born again~
wherever you arrive
they'll be there first,

glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Yatağımın karşısında bir pencere var. Odanın duvarları bomboş. Nasıl yaşadım on yıl bu evde? Bir gün duvara bir resim asmak gelmedi mi içimden? Ben ne yaptım? Kimse de uyarmadı beni. İşte sonunda anlamsız biri oldum. İşte sonum geldi. Kötü bir resim asarım korkusuyla hiç resim asmadım; kötü yaşarım korkusuyla hiç yaşamadım”
― Oğuz Atay , Tutunamayanlar

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“You think everyone you like is special, she said. I'm just a normal person. When you get to like someone, you make them feel like they're different from everyone else. You're doing it with Nick, you did it with me once.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“But you will never know another's heart, unless
You are prepared to give yours too.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Urfaust

“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Artık yeni insanları sevmekte güçlük çektiğin yaşlara geldiğinde, daha az müşkülpesent ve muhtemelen daha cesur olduğun yaşlarında bir yolunu bulup çok sevmeyi başardığın birini havaalanına bıraktıktan sonra, o dev ayrılık makinesinin kapısından çıkıp bir kaç saat önce birlikte geçtiğiniz yollardan, bu defa tek başına elin kolun bomboş dönerken kuru ekmek gibi ufalanıyordu için.”
― Melisa Kesmez, Nohut Oda

“bir kahramanı sevemem ben. bir heykele dönüştüğünü görmek istemiyorum.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“acı, bize birbirimizi hatırlatsın. sonradan karşılaştığımızda ondan tanıyacağız birbirimizi, bir sonra varsa eğer.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“The foxes run. The foxes die. I mourn them, but I understand that there is danger in mourning for those who would not mourn for you in return. Empathy is for those who can afford it. Empathy is for the privileged. Empathy is not for Nature.”
― Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

“Hurt me. Until I am outside pain.”
― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

“I am tired. Too full of stuff I've done. Where my legs hurt where my scalp hurts. I'll not fight the thing inside me anymore. Let it eat me up. Please God. I want it to.”
― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I am the shape you made me.
Filth teaches filth.”
― Sophokles

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises