Irem

“Senin buraya gelmenin sebebi sadece bizim 'gel' dememiz değil, ayrıca onların sana 'Git' demeleri. Hiç kimseye 'kötüdür' deme. aslında onlar, bilmeden iyilik eden insanlardır.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Suskunlar

“...it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“And, as the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world. Everything depended on one word: “Maktub.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of the society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained un-breached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world’s great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity