Beyza

“When you are standing all alone," she whispered, "the people who notice- those are the people who stand by your side. Those are the people who love you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Öyle bir yol yürüdünüz ki ancak
dönüş yolunu yok ederek gelebilirdiniz
inişiniz bir iniş olurdu başa dönmemecesine.
Yağmur yalnız yağarken yağmurdur
sen yalnız senken sensin
burada kalamazsın ve başa dönemezsin
gitmek zorundasın”
― İsmet Özel, Of Not Being A Jew