For me it has always been a city of ruins and of end-of-empire melancholy. I’ve spent my life either battling with this melancholy, or (like all Istanbullus) making it my own.
“I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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