" 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