E.

“We teach our child many things I don’t believe in, and almost nothing I do believe in. We teach punctuality, particularly if the enforcement of it disturbs the peace. My father taught me, by example, that the greatest defeat in life was to miss a train. Only after many years did I learn that an escaping train carries away with it nothing vital to my health. Railroad trains are such magnificent objects we commonly mistake them for Destiny.”
― E.B. White, One Man's Meat

“All lovers believe they are inventing love.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“Gittikçe daha iyi anlaşılıyordu ki Anadolu’da yapılan iş, yalnız vatanı düşmandan kurtarmak boğuşması değildi. Bunun bir başka anlamı, bir başka amacı olmalıydı. Eğer harekete bu başka anlam verilmez, boğuşma bir başka amaca yöneltilmezse, savaşı kazanmanın bile hiç değeri kalmayacak, orada bugün ölenler yarın ölecekler, tıpkı bunlardan önce yıllar yılı, bazı yenmiş, bazı yenilmiş olarak can verenler gibi kaynayıp gideceklerdi. Pisi pisine... Bedavaya... Kirli bir hizmetin adi bahşişi gibi...”
― Kemal Tahir, Esir Şehrin İnsanları

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride