Ecem Simsek

“With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some way. They reckon that history will care. (They don’t know that history will have other shit to be getting on with.) The indie kids figure that they’re passing on the torch or some fucking thing. That, just as they were influenced by someone—the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, the Stooges, whoever—then, in the future, young bands will be influenced by them. Maybe so. Maybe a few thousand malnourished cockless freaks scattered around the globe will give a shit. So what? Real people don’t..”
― John Niven, Kill Your Friends

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“As the French poet says, Le temps d’apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard, by the time we learn to live, it’s already too late.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Şu hakikati kendi hayatım bana öğretti: İnsanoğlu insanoğlununun cehennemidir. Bizi öldürecek belki yüzlerce hastalık, yüzlerce vaziyet vardır. Fakat başkasının yerini hiçbiri alamaz.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü