Duygu Erdogan

“Can you read my thoughts?" she asked them.
"Are you talking to me?" Lee said.
"To all of you. Can you read my thoughts?"
"What are you trying to do—get me sent to seclusion?"
"Go to hell", Helene said pleasantly.
"Don't look at me," Miss Coral said, with the genteel horror of a countess visiting an abattoir, "I can't even read my own.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others”
― Jocelyn Murray, The English Pirate

“Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner