sabiha ㅤ

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Aldous Huxley , Island

“Kasapların perdeleri boncuktan
Et. Kan. Ve o boncuklu şıkırtılar
Ne tezatlı bir şey, ne tuhaf
Ne tuhaf acıyla hiç konuşamamak.”
― Didem Madak, Grapon Kağıtları

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Ben dünyada bu kadar güzel gülen, güldüğü zaman bu kadar güzel olan insan görmedim.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Canım Aliye, Ruhum Filiz