Ekrem

“Piyano çalmayı çok isterdim," dedi donuk bir sesle. "Şimdi piyanoya oturur, kelimelerle ifade etmekte güçlük çektiğim bütün duygularımı, acılarımı tuşlara dökerdim. Bazen şiddetli, bazen yavaş basardım onlara. Kim bilir ne ince ayrıntıları vardır o dokunuşların? Kelimeleri daha önce öyle kötü yerlerde kullanıyoruz ki, kirletir diye korkuyoruz duygularıma dokunursa. Seslerin başka türlü bir dokunulmazlığı var.”
― Oğuz Atay, Tutunamayanlar

“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life