Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

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

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, " said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.

I stay grounded because everyone around me floats

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.