“Onu sevmek de, sevmemek de umutsuzdu...Bu da bir lanet değilse, başka nedir, bilmiyorum.”

“The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.”

“Have you ever been in love with someone so badly that you’d do anything for them? That no matter what you want, you want their happiness more?”

“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of the end, though few recognize it as such at the time.”

“Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.”

“She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love that is too strong can turn poisonous and bring great unhappiness. And then, what is the remedy? Can you unlearn your heart's desire? Can you stop loving someone? Easier to drown yourself; easier to take the lover's leap.”