Cemil

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Behzat Ç. gibi Ankara'da doğup büyüyen bir adamın duyup duyabileceği bütün sıkıntıların mimari karşılığı Ankara Adliyesi'dir.Kafka burayı görseydi, "Adamlar yapmış," deyip yazarlığı bırakırdı.”
― Emrah Serbes, Son Hafriyat

“God, what did any of it matter, in the end? You lived; you died. You were as indistinguishable from a distance as one of these blades of grass, and who was to say more important? Growing, surrounded by your kin, you out-living some, some out-living you. You didn't have to adjust the scale much, either, to reduce us to the sort of distant irrelevance of this bedraggled field. The grass was lucky if it grew, was shone upon and rained upon, and was not burned, and was not pulled up by the roots, or poisoned, or buried when the ground was turned over, and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on, and so got trampled, broken, pressed flat, with no malice; just effect.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Crow Road

“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.”
― Iain Banks, The Crow Road