Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

When your inner light shines your outer world glows.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Live passionately.

He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.

A smile is the most affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.

The only freak show I got is between my legs.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.