Neşe Kalyoncu’s Reviews > The Kites > Status Update

« the Pont d’Arcole in Paris, which supposedly bears this name because during the July Revolution of 1830, a young man was shot down there as he planted a tricolor flag, and as he fell, called out, “Remember that my name is Arcole.”  »

« . My favorite example of this is doux, for which English requires no fewer than six different words: it can mean sugary, gentle, soft, smooth, clement, or kindly. »

« The Germans, yes of course, the Germans … It’s their turn in history, that’s all. We’ll see, after the war, once Germany has been defeated and Nazism has bolted or been buried, whether other peoples, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in America, don’t pick up the torch. »

«  It was a bomb that lacked popular will. »

« Our bomb wasn’t … democratic enough.  »

«  “Don’t give up on her.” I couldn’t tell whether he was talking about Lila or France. »

« But dreamers have a kind of ill repute; there’s an everlasting and organic link between dreaming and rebellion.  »

« So this young woman you have been imagining for three years with so much fervor, when you find her again … You’ll need to keep inventing her, with everything you have. »

« They say love is blind but who knows — with you blindness might just be another way of seeing … »

« as I matured, I had begun spontaneously arming myself for life. »

fervid resolve