The Girl in the Tree

by Şebnem İşigüzel

“Dance like no one is watching, love as if you’ve never been hurt, sing like no one is listening, live as if the world is heaven itself!”

I’m here because I want to live. Either that or I’m imagining some other kind of death.

“Don’t be afraid. Death is a sweet slumber.”

You only really die when there isn’t a single person left on the earth who remembers you.”

“All things ephemeral are allegoric in their very nature.”

True death occurs when the spirit dies, regardless of whether or not the ephemeral body goes on living.

When a child treats its mother cruelly or a mother treats her child with wicked intent, it’s all over. Life is over.

Ultimately, a family’s story is about the women.

Now we’ve moved forward in time, and I’m making it snow for you on September 28.

And that world is buried in snow.