Nestor Alas

“The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow