Elif Koçkuzu

“But rest assured, my indications will lead you to the truth.” He paused.
Then he said: “And perhaps, then, you would wish that they had not led you
so far. You would say instead: 'Ring down the curtain.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain / Sleeping Murder

“She had not understood that the spirit that animated the body of her father animated the body of everything. Trees and the sky were not a backdrop to life, but they were equally life.

She thought, I am the daughter of everything.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

“When you’re quiet, you’re polite; but when I’m quiet, I’m wily.
If you did it, it’s good etiquette; if I do, it’s fawning flattery.
If you say it, it’s candid; if I do, it’s just rude.
If I ask, it’s obscene curiosity; when you do, it’s sympathy.
If I do it, it’s for my own convenience; if you do it, you’re most beneficent.
If I do it, I’m being stingy; if you do it, you’re being thrifty.
If I’m quiet, I’m acting proud; if you’re quiet, you feel bashful.
I’m extremely secretive, but you’re just reserved.
And my fashions are faux, whereas yours are cutting edge.
And if I lose something, what’s the big deal, but if you do, you’ve been
robbed, woe is me!”
― Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand