Diana

“But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn’t know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind