Ayse Kulin Quotes

#1. It had not had much effect, but that was beside the point. "Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually," Sabiha had told Selva. "What will you do then?

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#2. Water is poured onto the road as a guest departs, both to make the journey "as smooth and fluid as water" and to ensure their safe return.

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#3. Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually,

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#4. toward him with slumped shoulders.

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#5. If life is too short, isn't that more reason to make the most of what we've got? To live the way we want to?

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#6. Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it.

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#7. What a shame swear words aren't allowed in diplomacy.

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#8. She kept everything with nostalgic significance, and this instinct was typical of people who are always on the move.

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#9. How on earth could he find the time to care for her when he was inundated with work?

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#10. There are three different takes on career women in this house, she thought to herself: that of my husband, who respects working women but wishes I wasn't one of them; that of my mother, who hates the very idea; and then there's me, a working woman who has no idea what she really wants! There

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#11. Ebru, or water marbling, is formed by drawing designs with dye on the surface of water and then transferring the whirled image onto paper placed on the water.

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#12. bedroom. He threw the cover, quilt, and pillows hastily on the floor, feeling the sides of the mattress until he found what he was looking for.

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#13. Now this, this is hell! Nimeta said to herself. I've lived to see hell on earth. God must be making us pay for our sins here and now.

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#14. Or perhaps she would be applying her innovative light therapy to the White House staff.

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#15. My God, she thought, where on earth can I go to save my son from such suffering? Is there any corner of the vast world where people live without tormenting each other?

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#16. You'll always find a reason not to refuse him, a good reason, Nimeta. Because you're still in love with him,

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#17. After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren't we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.

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