Ezgi Çakmak

“Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines. Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking machine, and your father was programmed to bawl out your mother for being a defective housekeeping machine. They were programmed to bawl each other out for being defective loving machines. Then your father was programmed to stomp out of the house and slam the door. This automatically turned your mother into a weeping machine. And your father would go down to the tavern where he would get drunk with some other drinking machines. Then all the drinking machines would go to a whorehouse and rent fucking machines. And then your father would drag himself home to become an apologizing machine. And your mother would become a very slow forgiving machine.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Sibel, Batı dışı ülkelerin, özellikle İslam ülkelerinin burjuvalarının yerinde sezgisiyle, psikanalizi aile içi dayanışma ve sır paylaşma yoluyla tedavi alışkanlığı olmayan Batılılar için icat edilmiş "bilimsel bir sır verme" ritüeli olarak görürdü.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“Tante Rosa buzdolabını açtı. Bir kavanoz ekşi yoğurt buldu, batı batı denen uygarlık bu işte, buzdolaplı açlıklar var burda.”
― Sevgi Soysal, Tante Rosa