Everyone knows that all these big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.
The city’s more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.
A good education removes the barriers between rich and poor!
You’ll learn it all soon enough… You will see everything without being seen. You will hear everything but pretend that you haven’t…You will walk for ten hours a day but feel like you haven’t walked at all.
Where there’s a lot of money to be made, there’s also a lot of blood to be spilled.
WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.
The gulf between the private and public views of our countrymen is evidence of the power of the state.[Celâl Salik, Milliyet]
People who make fun of everything can never truly fall in love, nor truly believe in God.
In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.
God loves some people more. Those people end up rich. He loves some people a little less, and those people stay poor. You take a pin and scratch off one of these colored circles, and underneath you’ll find your gift and your fortune.
But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.
