Neslihan Aksu

“Nelerden korktuğumuzu, neleri istediğimizi, neleri sevdiğimizi, neleri sevmediğimizi belirlemişiz. Bu sınırların dışına çıkarsak yanlış bir şey yapacakmışız gibi hissediyoruz. Kendimize "Ben" adında bir hapishane yapmışız, bir türlü tahliye olamıyoruz Osman.”
― Aylin Balboa, Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman

“Ben, Osman kızı Leyla, Remzi’nin karısı Leyla oldum. Bana sorsalar, sadece “Leyla” olmak isterim. “Leyla’yla Mecnun” bile değil, düz Leyla...”
― Seray Şahiner, Antabus

“Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works. Work and pay bills, use dental floss and get to meetings on time, stand in line and fill out forms, come to grips with cables and put furniture together, change tires on the car and charge the phone and switch the coffee machine off and not forget to sign the kids up for swimming lessons. We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of "Don't Forget!"s and "Remember!"s over us. We don't have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents' meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they're doing. We're the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff. And everyone else's children can swim.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library