Mina Erik

“Çağımıza ayak uydurmalıyız palavrasına hiç mi hiç inanmıyorum. Eğer yaşadığım çağın en yüce ideali köşeyi dönmekse; eğer yaşadığım çağ toplumsal adaletsizlik üzerine kuruluysa; eğer yaşadığım çağ inandığım her şeyi yadsıyorsa; eğer yaşadığım çağa bayağılık ve çirkinlik egemense, ben böyle bir çağa neden ayak uydurmak zorunda kalayım?”
― Mîna Urgan, Bir Dinozorun Anıları

“People fear that being trapped inside a box, they will miss out on all the wonders of the world. As long as Neo is stuck inside the matrix, and Truman is stuck inside the TV studio, they will never visit Fiji, or Paris, or Machu Picchu. But in truth, everything you will ever experience in life is within your own body and your own mind. Breaking out of the matrix or travelling to Fiji won’t make any difference. It’s not that somewhere in your mind there is an iron chest with a big red warning sign ‘Open only in Fiji!’ and when you finally travel to the South Pacific you get to open the chest, and out come all kinds of special emotions and feelings that you can have only in Fiji. And if you never visit Fiji in your life, then you missed these special feelings for ever. No. Whatever you can feel in Fiji, you can feel anywhere in the world; even inside the matrix.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The best sea has yet to be crossed.
The best child has yet to be born.
Our best days have yet to be lived;
and the best word I want to say to you
is the word I have not yet said.”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Henüz Vakit Varken Gülüm

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down