hasret

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Hasret toz gibi
Önce çayımıza karışıyor sonra kanımıza
Yalnızlık koz gibi
Önce bizi kast ediyor sonra canımıza
İnsan aymaz aylak gibi
Biraya alışıyor karanlıkta

Biz bir aya kalmaz göçeriz

Kurtulur insanlık da...”
― Can Bonomo, Delirmek, Belirmektir

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Where does all our effort go? It’s hard not to envy the monsters when you see how good they have it. And how unbothered they are at being monsters.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!