" You speak like a future nation-builder, Master Shevki. Dede has no relationship with the nation. His domain is the soul of the individual … a soul that has curiosities, enigmas, hunger, thirst particular to itself. Whether or not men are composed of small pieces of an apparent nation like some type of world-womb, they return naked to the congregation. Dede has no relation with the future Turkish regime that you have imagined. "

― Halide Edib Adıvar , Sinekli Bakkal, or the Clown and His Daughter, Part II: Translated from the Turkish by W. D. Halsey