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1 " Tanrı misafiri sözcüğü sadece Türklere aitti. "
― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country
2 " What a shame swear words aren't allowed in diplomacy. "
― Ayşe Kulin
3 " Türkiye'ydi burası; harika şeylerin ömrünün uzun sürmediği ülke! "
4 " Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it. "
― Ayşe Kulin , Last Train to Istanbul
5 " After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren’t we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things. "
6 " My God, she thought, where on earth can I go to save my son from such suffering? Is there any corner of the vast world where people live without tormenting each other? "
7 " Nereye gidersen git, kendi hikayenle baş başa kalırsın sonunda... "
8 " Mahpusluk, yaşamın akmadığı, zamanın geçmediği, renklerin gözükmediği bir mekânda oturup kalmak olmalı. "
― Ayşe Kulin , Bir Gün
9 " Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually, "
10 " Wouldn’t we be happier, she thought, if we could rid ourselves of the old conventions or shrug off the chains binding us to our past? If we could only do that, we’d be happier, more independent. "
11 " Tıpkı sigara gibi kötü bir alışkanlık mutsuzluk; tuhaf bir keyif veriyor tiryakisine, hayatını sinsi sinsi yiyerek, damarlarını tıkayarak öldürürken! "
― Ayşe Kulin ,
12 " For all the pain, sorrow, and violence inflicted on this magnificent world by people of different faiths for whatever misguided reason, hope springs eternal. Hope is life. "
― Ayşe Kulin , Sevdalinka
13 " We’ve lived openly with our different backgrounds for years in this country. There’s never been a problem. Do you think people are going to change overnight just because a madman is taking the reins of government?” “Nobody could have predicted that reasonable Germans would stand by as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and exterminated. But when that madman came to power, everything changed, and reasonable people did nothing to stop it. They all tried to save their own skin first and foremost. "
14 " It’s interesting, she thought, that one isn’t scared of death from a distance, but when it is staring you in the face it feels like a merciless enemy that you desperately want to avoid. "
15 " Hayatta gri renkler vardır.Hiçbir şey siyah beyaz değildir.Hele sevgiler hiç değildir. "
16 " It’s always the minorities who get targeted when nationalism boils over, "
17 " Her parents were left-wing intellectuals at a time when leftists were being interrogated, arrested, and shot. "
18 " You always said time was precious, and we should never be afraid to show our feelings, that there’s no place for pride in love. "
19 " He who falls into the sea will cling even to a serpent. "
20 " No country is completely free of those who would prefer to keep people separate. Even in countries with the most homogenous of populations, there will always be some who feel compelled to condemn, envy, and attack others, whether for belonging to a different political party or merely for supporting a rival football club. But "
