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41 " Lacivert elbise giyen memurların niye birbirlerine bu kadar benzediklerini tam anlamıyla çözememişimdir; tıpkı tüm din tacirlerinin badem bıyıklan, yuvarlak yüzleri, fildırfiş gözleriyle, futbolcuların adaleli ve çarpık bacakları, sert hatlı gergin simalarıyla ya da milletvekillerinin fırça bıyıklanyla birbirlerine benzemelerini çözemediğim gibi. "
― Ayşe Kulin , Bir Gün
42 " Resmime benzeseydim bile, SENTEZ gibi itici bir adı olan, ukala yazarların köşeleri tuttuğu sol eğilimli bir gazeteyi zaten kaç kişi okur şu memlekette? Beni, gazetemin ve kendi küçük çevremin dışında tanıyanlar olabilir endişesine kapılmamız ne büyük aptallıktı! "
43 " What’s wrong with teaching English, Rafo? Is it forbidden to teach?” “No, but it is forbidden to be Jewish.” Selva "
― Ayşe Kulin , Last Train to Istanbul
44 " You never know. Maybe he was cuckolded by a Jewish beauty when he was young. Don’t they say there’s always a woman’s finger behind everything? Cherchez la femme!” Muhlis "
45 " Women who’d lost their humanity; men who had no money, no home, and no hope. "
46 " 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? "
47 " You’re a legal scholar. You have the luxury of dissecting thorny questions one step at a time. I’m a doctor. If I were to remove a tumor one piece at a time—a bit today, a little next week, some more next year—the patient would die. To be effective, treatment must be immediate, swift, and thorough! "
― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country
48 " . . all were consigned to the flames. Thousands of books reduced to ashes because their authors are Jews, or Communist, or nihilists, but in truth because the power of ideas poses a threat to Hitler. "
49 " that was, if there were someone mad enough to visit this hell. "
50 " All I know is that I will find my own husband myself. I would hate to find someone through a competition organized by keen mothers. "
51 " In a lifespan of seventy or eighty years, he thought to himself, the first and the last ten years are marked by the helplessness of childhood and old age, but are we sent to this earth to squander the remaining fifty or sixty years by constantly being at each other’s throats, fighting and waging war, and then suffering the losses and destruction that result? Whether Bogomil or Christian, Jew or Muslim, was that really mankind’s fate? "
― Ayşe Kulin , Sevdalinka
52 " Sensible men have important jobs; they haven’t got a lot of spare time to spend with their wives. Only idle men have time to spend at home with their families. "
53 " What made it even worse was that Selva had used all the advice he had ever given her against him. "
54 " toward him with slumped shoulders. "
55 " It’s a matter of principle, Macit; we fell in love knowing exactly where we came from. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs. Had he asked me to convert, I would have been hurt and angry myself. No! Rafo will never change his religion! "
56 " Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually,” Sabiha had "
57 " If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually "
58 " The paşa had often pointed out that the more people became interested in science, the pursuit of knowledge, and culture, the less importance they placed on religion. "
59 " Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually,” Sabiha had told Selva. “What will you do then? "
60 " but rest assured, no foreigner can speak a new language without an accent. Don’t feel embarrassed, "