Buse Halac

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“... Bu yol bitmez herhalde. İnsan ölür, o yolun bir yerinde kalır. Ama bu yolda ilerleme gücünü veren şey, bir şeyler yapmak dediği şeyi yapma gücünü veren şey, inançsa, Andronikos daha yolun başında yaya kalmıyor mu? İnanç değil de başka bir şey olabilir mi bu gücü veren?...”
― Bilge Karasu, Uzun Sürmüş Bir Günün Akşamı

“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Venice,' the Khan said.

Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?'

The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.'

And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities