On the Road

“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. ”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

“The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow