Elif

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Kâbuslarımın kara cübbeli dervişi ne derse desin bu konuda annem haklıydı:
Tanrı olmak diye bir şey varsa işte buydu; bir insanı dünyaya getirmek, birine can vermek,
yaşamın sürekliliğine katkıda bulunmak. Çünkü her çocuk bir umuttu. Ve yaşam ne kadar
acımasız, insanlar ne kadar kötü olurlarsa olsunlar; onları kendilerinden başka kurtaracak
kimse yoktu.”
― Ahmet Ümit

“In his life he too, like all people, had harboured ideas and dreams. Some he had fulfilled for himself; some had been granted to him. Many things had remained out of reach, or barely had he reached them than they were torn from his hands again. But he was still here. And in the mornings after the first snowmelt, when he walked across the dew-soaked meadow outside his hut and lay down on one of the flat rocks scattered there, the cool stone at his back and the first warm rays of sun on his face, he felt that many things had not gone so badly after all.”
― Robert Seethaler, Ein ganzes Leben

“Maria mi si è sdraiata accanto. - Ho paura.
- Loro hanno paura.
- Perchè?
- Perchè urlano.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, I'm Not Scared