Rıdvan Ipek

“In nature, he thinks, there is no such thing as ugliness. It's like he tried to tell Margaret in the car, beauty belongs to god, and ugliness to human beings.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“You drive yourself crazy thinking about different things you could have done in the past. But sometimes I think, actually, I didn't have that much power over my life anyway. I mean, I couldn't give myself a new personality out of nothing. And things just kind of happened to me.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“And you ask yourself: Where are your dreams? And you shake your head and say: How quickly do the years fly by! And again you ask yourself: What have you done with your years? Where have you buried your best days? Did you live or not?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I don't know how to keep quiet when my heart is speaking inside me.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights: And Other Stories