Emre

“Indeed, even in the Middle Ages, there were many more Christians in Asia than there were in Europe.50 After all, Baghdad is closer to Jerusalem than to Athens, while Teheran is nearer the Holy Land than Rome, and Samarkand is closer to it than Paris and London. Christianity’s success in the east has long been forgotten.”
― Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

“It is ironic, therefore, that while Constantine is famous for being the Emperor who laid the basis for the Christianisation of Europe, it is never noted that there was a price to pay for his embrace of a new faith: it spectacularly compromised Christianity’s future in the east. The”
― Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

“I’ll tell you what surprises me.”
“Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?”
“It’s your cat,” he said.
“I don’t have a cat.”
“That’s what surprises me.”
“You think I’m a cat person.”
“I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“Şarkılarla gecenin karanlığı yavaş yavaş birleşince belleğimin oluklarına sürükleniyorum sanki.”
― Tomris Uyar, Yaza Yolculuk