Fidan Lurin

“Don't forget that your mind is a stranger at nights. Don't talk to strangers.”
― Elif Shafak , The Bastard of Istanbul

“A woman’s image, and sometimes her soul, is moulded and unmoulded, shaped according to the regime’s taste and used as a store mannequin to promote the prevailing political power’s concept of the ideal female citizen. Every regime, without exception, starts building its ideal citizen by tampering with its women.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“...I am afraid, but I am conscious enough to know that there is no hope even of death in perdition, only more of the same awful suffering. It stands apart from loss, injury, or perhaps even grief, all of which are terrible, and yet are still beautiful to the dead woman, who sees them as remarkably human, and alive.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“It’s more than that now. I can’t tell the difference between what’s part of me and what’s not.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep