...buraya bağlanıp kaldığım için huzursuz oldum. Kendimi... Harcadığımı düşünmeye başladım. Benim iki yanım olduğunu biliyorsun. Senin de sevdiğin uyuklayan, tembel bir yanım var, bunun dışında içimde bir enerji var... Bu benim çılgınca şeyler yapmama neden oluyor. Bu benim başka yerlerde yararlı olabilecek bir yanım, bu ben artık güzel değilken işime yarayabilecek bir şey...
Sayfa 66
Seni, sana aşık olmayacak kadar iyi tanıyorum.
Sayfa 64
türkmenistan aslında kuzey koreymiş
He spent vast sums on ridiculous buildings, like an ice palace in the desert, a giant pyramid and a $100 million mosque that he named “Spirit of Türkmenbaşy.” He built a giant concrete staircase on a desolate mountain and forced every public servant to go on a 23-mile walk along it every year. In 2004, he sacked 15,000 medical staff from the country’s health service and replaced them with soldiers; he closed all hospitals outside the capital, on the grounds that if people were sick, they could travel in; he swapped out the Hippocratic oath for an oath sworn to Türkmenbaşy. He reportedly used to seize smuggled shipments of drugs and keep them for himself, shooting pistols at imaginary enemies in his darkened residence. There was no free press, dissidents were suppressed and all public groups, political parties and religions had to register with the “Ministry of Fairness.” Outside the Ministry of Fairness stood a giant statue of the figure of Justice—who, people couldn’t help but notice, looked surprisingly like Türkmenbaşy’s mother.
