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“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.”
― My Name Is Red
― My Name Is Red
“Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two.”
― My Name Is Red
― 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”
― My Name Is Red
― My Name Is Red
“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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