Suzy Bannion

“çünkü bazı sızılar bir defa başladı mı artık geçmiyor. bazı yaralar hiç kapanmıyor. bazı eller bazı saçları okşamayınca, bu minicik, aptal, önemsiz şey yaşanmayınca, bazı hayatlar geri dö­nüşsüz biçimde tarumar oluyor. belki siz bunu bilmiyorsunuz. umarım hiç öğrenmezsiniz. bazı durumlarda sadece bilmeyen­ler yaşamayı beceriyor. hayatta kalmakla yaşamayı becermek aynı şey değil.”
― Nermin Yıldırım, Dokunmadan

“I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I don't want to live any more. I spend most of my life not wanting to live. The only place I am happy is here where we're being taught, and I have to think of something else, or reading books, or in the cinema. Or in bed. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist. I can't remember having been happy for two or three years. Since the abortion. All I can remember is forcing myself sometimes to look happy so if I catch sight of my face in the mirror I might kid myself for a moment I really am happy.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman