b.

“Böyle olmasını istemezdim ama hep olurdu. Dünyanın bütün kızılderilileri yenilir, Spartakus kaybeder, gün batarken sararır, kuşlar döner, Sadri Alışık denilen hergele, her filminde ağlardı. O ağladıkça ben de ağlardım. Nedenimi bilmez ağlardım. Ağladıkça Sadri’ye kıl kapar gıcık olurdum. Üçüncü şahıs olarak kalışına, hep gidici kadınları sevişine, bu gidiciliklerin bir mecburiyet gibi duruşuna, Sadri’nin bu mecburiyetlere, giden kişinin özgürlüğü olarak bakıp, ona ihanet etmemek için kendine ihanet edişine...”
― İlhami Algör, Fakat Müzeyyen Bu Derin Bir Tutku

“It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd