Umut

“Zavallı köylü çocuğu! Sen, iki üvey ananın yavrususun. Biri demin seni döven anandır, öbürü de seni her gün döven, doğduğundan beri döven yurdundur. İkisinin acısı arasında, böyle kavrulup gitmişsin.”
― Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Yaban

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes