The New Life

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

Love is the urgency to hold fast to another and to be together in the same place. It's the desire to keep the world out by embracing another. It is the yearning to find a safe harbor for the human soul.

If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul

Love is good for the skin.

- Nasmej mi se. Nasmej mi se pa da na tvom licu, barem jednom ugledam svetlost onog sveta. Podseti me na toplinu pekare u koju sam, vraćajući se iz škole sa tašnom u ruci po snežnom zimskom danu, ulazila da kupim zemičku; podseti me kako sam po vrelom letnjem danu sa keja radosno skakala u more; podseti me na prvi poljubac, na prvi zagrljaj, na orah do čijeg sam se samog vrha popela sama, na letnje veče u kojem sam bila van sebe, na noć u kojoj sam se veselo napila, na ušuškanost u mom jorganu i na lepo dete koje me je sa ljubavlju pogledalo. Sve je to u onoj zemlji, i ja želim tamo da odem, pomozi mi, pomozi mi da bih mogla srećna da prihvatim to da me je sve manje svaki put kad udahnem.

Hiçbir şey, her şeyi unutabilmenin verdiği huzurdan değerli olamaz.

I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.

Love points the way, empties you of the stuff of life, carries you at last to the mystery of creation.