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

“What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can’t know and they can’t tell us.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“There’s a certain man, an archetype, he’s a model of dependability for his male friends, all the things a friend should be, an ally and confidant, lends money, gives advice, loyal and so on, but sheer hell on women. Living breathing hell. The closer a woman gets, the clearer it becomes to him that she is not one of his male friends. And the more awful it becomes for her. This is Keith. This is the man you’re going to marry.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

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