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“To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl