hasret

“Kendisinden daha dün ayrılmış gibi taze bir hasret duydum. Kaybedilen en kıymetli eşyanın, servetin, her türlü dünya saadetinin acısı zamanla unutuluyor. Yalnız kaçırılan fırsatlar asla akıldan çıkmıyor ve her hatırlayışta insanın içini sızlatıyor. Bunun sebebi herhalde, "Bu öyle olmayabilirdi!" düşüncesi, yoksa insan mukadder telakki ettiği şeyleri kabule her zaman hazır.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna

“Doesn’t the feeling between people have a truth of its own? Not in the sense of formal propositional truth-value, no. But then why does that word, ‘truth,’ have a certain sensation to it, which is not exhausted by the formal definition?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He felt a flash of familiar shame—his whole life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!