“... Çünkü sevmek, sessiz ve tek başına bir şeydir. Sevmek yalnızlıktır. O'nu eskisi kadar sevmeyeceğinden korkuyordu. O'nu uyandırmaktan korkuyordu.
Eskisi kadar sevemeyecekti, belki de hiç sevemeyecekti. Çünkü arada o orman, o karanlık, o geçitvermez, o yeşermekten kararmış orman olmayacaktı artık. Duman inceliğinde bir boşluk dolanıyordu yüreğini.”
― Üç Aynalı Kırk Oda
Eskisi kadar sevemeyecekti, belki de hiç sevemeyecekti. Çünkü arada o orman, o karanlık, o geçitvermez, o yeşermekten kararmış orman olmayacaktı artık. Duman inceliğinde bir boşluk dolanıyordu yüreğini.”
― Üç Aynalı Kırk Oda
“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.”
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