Cathreen Shiucheng

“..when you fall in love with someone you don't know them at all. In fact, most couple would never fall in love if they got to know each other even a little bit before getting married”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“I'll tell you one thing, though: people who make fun of everything can never truly fall in love, nor truly believe in God. That's because they're too proud. But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“All of us, more or less, wear masks. Because without masks we can’t survive in this violent world. Beneath an evil-spirit mask lies the natural face of an angel, beneath an angel’s mask lies the face of an evil spirit. It’s impossible to have just one or the other. That’s who we are. And that’s Carnaval. Schumann was able to see the many faces of humanity—the masks and the real faces—because he himself was a deeply divided soul, a person who lived in the stifling gap in between the two.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories