Eda AYDIN

“Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part,
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have giv'n him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.

- Sonnet LXI”
― Michael Drayton, Idea: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

“Özgürlük yoksa kararlılık felaketle sonuçlanır; özgürlük yoksa cesaret zulmün kapısını açar; özgürlük yoksa tutku büyük bir zindana dönüşür; özgürlük yoksa iyilik en korkunç kötülükleri uyandırır. Siz aşkı hükmedilecek bir ülke zannettiniz, sevgiliyi ise bir savaş ganimeti. Oysa aşkın bunlarla alakası yoktur. Sevmek için insanın hür olması gerekir, anlayın artık, özgürlük yoksa aşk da yoktur.”
― Ahmet Ümit, Bir Aşk Masalı

“Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices I've made in life. While I may not remember all the details, the stories continue to exert a quiet influence on me.”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop