The Girl in the Tree Quotes

“You too should be a little confused because that is my constant state of being. Life itself is confused.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“If something drives you from yourself, cast it from your life.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Have you never had such feelings? That you’d fight back tooth and nail, no matter the odds? There are things you feel in life, the causes of which are incomprehensible to everyone but you. Things that are illogical, seemingly empty, opaque to the outside world. Things that cannot be reduced to terms explainable to others. Things that are laden with a significance that no one else can see.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“You only really die when there isn’t a single person left on the earth who remembers you.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“The world is made up of stories. If it wasn’t, life would be insufferable.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Nature knows how things should be done—it’s people who spoil the game.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Feeling uneasy and going through life constantly hounded by concerns are terrible things. I learned that from my mom. And from my aunt as well. Unease weighs you down, like melancholy or grief. It is an emotion, and an unpleasant one at that. And that is exactly how I felt. Uneasy.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“If we’d known that we were heading for darker days and that our last free and easy summer was slipping away, we would’ve enjoyed it as best we could.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Don’t be so surprised. Even between two moments there’s always a certain amount of time.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Because life isn’t what we experience. It’s how we remember it.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Everyone has experienced a moment when they were severed from life, driven hither and thither. We remember moments, not days. That’s why moments are so important.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“saw through a child’s eyes. That is the role that children play: they document the lives of their parents through what they remember about them.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Although she had a family of her own now, she was lonely and had no one in her life.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“That little boy who missed his mother so much that it made him tremble inside didn’t know what it meant to grow up. Even though he’d grown into a man, his facial hair grew in, and he fell in love, he was still the same boy who’d lost his mother. Dead children never grow up, and the dead never age, and the same holds true for the people who are left behind. Physically, the world keeps turning. But your inner world—the realm you carry within, your internal life—stops at the moment you lose someone you love.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“life isn’t what we experience. It’s how we remember it.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Because the weak tyrannize others. They are cowards. “Tyrants are afraid.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“My thoughts wander. You know how it is sometimes, stringing words together is such an exacting and difficult task. Isn’t that true for all of us?”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“I couldn’t help but wonder: Do you have to be evil to win in the end?”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“we are all other people’s stories.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“In my neighborhood, when the cops come for you, no one ever sees you again.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Our lives have all gone to shit.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“life is like that: shaped by things that are the furthest from our minds, things that we don’t imagine could ever happen.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“It’s strange how all that can remain of a person’s life is a slab of stone.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“There is nothing more humiliating, degrading, and dehumanizing than trying, without success, to find work.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“I laughed to myself when I said that. When we laugh, it helps us pull ourselves together, like how the wind carries something from one place to another.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Yes, I climbed up here so that I could be exempt from life.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree

“Akıldan geçirilen her intihar insanın ölümüdür esasında.”
― Şebnem İşigüzel, Ağaçtaki Kız