Sen bana bak oğlum, yalanın gücü doğrunun güçsüzlüğünden değildir. Yalan teşkilat kurmuş, doğru yalnızdır. Yalanın geleneği var, senin doğrunun her gün yeniden yaratılması gerek. Her gün bir şafak çiçeği gibi yeniden açması gerek. Sen yenileceksin.
Yenilmeyen doğru yenmiş sayılmaz. Doğru yenile yenile öyle keskin bir hale gelmeli ki... Yüz bin yıl su altında, yıkanmış, düzelmiş çakıltaşı gibi.
‘Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names… well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you, Percy, are my favourite son.’
Want is an interesting word. It means lack. So, she crossed that out and tried again.
Nora decided to live. Nothing.
She tried again. Nora was ready to live.
They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.
Expensive restaurants have bigger gaps between the tables. First class on airplanes has no middle seats. Exclusive hotels have separate entrances for guests staying in suites. The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.