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“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”
― Three Daughters of Eve
― Three Daughters of Eve
“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending in every direction, under and above the ancient soils of the earth. If even roots refused to stay put, why expect the impossible from human beings?”
― Havva'nın Üç Kızı
― Havva'nın Üç Kızı
“You were expected to believe in the State for the same reason you were expected to believe in God: fear. The bourgeoisie, despite its glamour and glitz, resembled a child afraid of its father –the eternal patriarch, the Baba. Amidst uncertainty, unlike their counterparts in Europe, the local bourgeoisie had neither audacity nor autonomy, neither tradition nor memory –squeezed between what they were expected to be and what they wished to be.”
― Three Daughters of Eve
― Three Daughters of Eve
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