Beril

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Her sevginin başlangıcı ve süreci, o sevginin bitişinin getireceği boşluk ve yalnızlık ile dolu. Belirsizlikler arasında belirlemeye çalıştığımız yaşam gibi. Sevgi isteği, kendi kendine yaşamı kanıtlama isteği kadar büyük. Belki kendilerine yaşamı kanıtlamaya gerek duymayan insanlar, sevgileri de derinliğine duymadan, acıya dönüştürmeden yaşayıp gidiyorlar. Ya da sevgiyi sevgi, beraberliği beraberlik, ayrılığı ayrılık, yaşamı yaşam, ölümü ölüm olarak yaşıyorlar. Oysa yaşam ölümle, ölüm yaşamla tanımlı. Ama sen. Senin için her beraberlik ayrılış, her ayrılış beraberlik, sevgi sevgisizlik, duyum duyumsuzluğun başladığı an. Birisinin teniyle yan yana olmak, kendi varoluşumu unutmak mı. Ya da daha derin algılamak mı. Kendi varoluşum. Her varoluş kendisiyle birlikte ölümü getirmiyor mu.”
― Tezer Özlü, Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk