Busra Islek

“Hiçbir şeyi, kendimi erkeklere beğendirmek için öğrenmedim. Hiçbir zaman erkeklerin önünde kızarmadım ve onlardan bir iltifat beklemedim. Bu hâl beni müthiş bir yalnızlığa mâhkum etti.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna

“No one has ever asked you to make a floor-to-ceiling-sized friendship collage for their birthday. Or ring them three times a day. No one will cry if you don’t invite them to dinner because you don’t have enough chairs. If you feel exhausted by people, it’s because you’re willingly playing the martyr to make them like you. It’s your problem, not theirs.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Can you read my thoughts?" she asked them.
"Are you talking to me?" Lee said.
"To all of you. Can you read my thoughts?"
"What are you trying to do—get me sent to seclusion?"
"Go to hell", Helene said pleasantly.
"Don't look at me," Miss Coral said, with the genteel horror of a countess visiting an abattoir, "I can't even read my own.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden