Charlina

“Nalan thought that one of the endless tragedies of human history was that pessimists were better at surviving than optimists, which meant that, logically speaking, humanity carried the genes of people who did not believe in humanity.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“...damit er nicht seinen Mondzement auf das Gesicht "des Kindes" verschüttete, das auf dem Rücken Tau trank”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Eva is Inside Her Cat

“[...] this stranger who had been composed of a head and a half-torso, framed by the window ledge like a painting from a different century, as if a product of someone else’s imagination.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World