Elif Erman

“Duvardaki bütün tüfekler, aynı anda patladı.”
― Ömür İklim Demir, Kum Tefrikaları

“While most of the flowers in the garden had rich scents and colors, we also had two magnolia trees, with huge but pale and scentless flowers. The magnolia flowers, when ripe, would be crawling with tiny insects, little beetles. Magnolias, my mother explained, were among the most ancient of flowering plants and had appeared nearly a hundred million years ago, at a time when “modern” insects like bees had not yet evolved, so they had to rely on a more ancient insect, a beetle, for pollination. Bees and butterflies, flowers with colors and scents, were not preordained, waiting in the wings—and they might never have appeared. They would develop together, in infinitesimal stages, over millions of years. The idea of a world without bees or butterflies, without scent or color, affected me with a sense of awe.”
― Oliver Sacks, The River of Consciousness

“Ötanazi için İngilizce'de çok güzel bir deyim vardı: "Mercy killing" yani merhametten ötürü öldürmek. Sevgilim Thomas More ta on altıncı yüzyılın başlangıcında, bu deyimi kullanmadan Ütopya'sında ötanazi'yi savunur. 1935'de Katolik Kilisesi onu resmen ermiş ilan etmişti. Gerçekten öyleydi kendisi, ama Kilisenin sandığı gibi Katolik bir ermiş değil, komünist bir ermişti aslında.”
― Mîna Urgan, Bir Dinozorun Anıları

“Deliler, deliliklerinin özgürlüğünü yitiriyor”
― Gündüz Vassaf, Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm”
― Gündüz Vassaf