Gunel

“And when Cici laughed—really laughed—it felt like the sun was singing. Blue sky, pure joy uncorked. I imagined that's what freedom felt like. You wanted it to go on forever.”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“If Romania's superstars were suffering, would the world finally understand the terrible plight of the ordinary Romanian people? No. Of course not. How could we expect others to feel our pain or hear our cries for help when all we could do was whisper?”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“Only now did I begin to understand why it was not always through words that people sought each other out and came to understand each other, and why some poets went to such lengths to seek out companions who could, like them, contemplate the beauties of nature in silence.”
― Sabahattin Ali (Urdu Translation Huma Anwar), Die Madonna Im Pelzmantel

“The pain of losing something precious—be it earthly happiness or material wealth—can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is the nagging thought that things might have turned out different, becaue wihtout that thought, we would put it out to fate and accept it.”
― Ali Sabahattin, Madonna in A Fur Coat