The Girl in the Tree

by Şebnem İşigüzel

You have to admit that to a certain extent, happiness is related to whether or not you have any money.

He was a prime example of a fascist who paints himself as a conservative.

I’m incapable of living in the moment because I constantly think one step ahead, meaning that my mind is never really at ease.

Male violence is like smoke—it seeps in everywhere. And society and the state make it possible for that violence to sink its roots into every home, slowly poisoning women to the point that they are reduced to little more than walking corpses.

unhappy people wear their misery on their sleeves. Everyone sees it, but pretends that they don’t.

“What is depression? A state of self-resentment.”

If anyone aside from your mother says to you, “I’m telling you this for your own good,” you can be sure that whatever they’re going to say is most certainly not in your best interests, so don’t listen to a word of it.

“You can’t live in the moment because you’re always thinking about tomorrow.”

I wished that the human mind was like a bathroom faucet. That it could be shut off with the turn of a knob.