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“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“şimdiye dek düşünmediyseniz
bakmayın içinde ne var
küçük bir kitaptır yaşamak
elinde tutmaya yarar”
― Cemal Süreya

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Yeterince uzun süre baktığımız şeyden nefret edemeyiz, onu küçük göremeyiz. Günümüzde bütün politik şiddet ve rezalet kimsenin kimseye bakmamasından kaynaklanıyor.”
― Antoni Casas Ros, Le théorème d'Almodóvar

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“Açlıktan ölmekte olan bir köpeği alıp rahata kavuşturursanız, sizi ısırmaz. İşte insanla köpek arasındaki temel fark budur.”
― Mark Twain

“Sesle iletilebilecek ne kadar duygu varsa, anında sessizliğin diline çeviriyorduk bu yüzden, duruşun diline ya da bakışın, kıpırdanışın, nefes alıp verişin, irkilişin diline.”
― Hasan Ali Toptaş, Ölü Zaman Gezginleri

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
Is it true?
Is it necessary?
Is it kind?”
― A Sufi Saying

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

“Dost olacak, düşman olacak, sonuna kadar, köküne kadar dost, düşman olabilecek insan soyu tükendi. Şu ot gibi yaşayanlar, beşe alıp da ona satanlar ne dost olabilirler iliklerine kadar, sırılsıklam, ne düşman olabilirler ölümüne.”
― Yaşar Kemal, Demirciler Çarşısı Cinayeti

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre