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“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“From girl to woman to who I am now,
from love to anger to this cold marrow,
from fire to shelter to fire.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“I often strike a balance between a strong desire and an accident of which I am either the instigator or the victim, an illness, or some other tragedy. Knowing whether I would agree to pay the imaginary price of disaster is a sure means of assessing the strength of my desire, possibly also of challenging fate: ‘I don’t care if the house burns down so long as I manage to finish writing this book.”
― Annie Ernaux;, Simple Passion

“Korkma, aydınlığı bir ucundan da olsa görenlerin işi değil korkmak. Karanlıktaki çocuklar korkar. Biz ne çocuğuz, ne de her yer karanlık.”
― Sevgi Soysal, Yenişehir'de Bir Öğle Vakti