"The White Castle" Quotes
"The White Castle" by Orhan Pamuk is a historical novel that explores identity and cultural exchange through the complex relationship between a Venetian slave and his Ottoman master in 17th-century Istanbul.
fiction | 161 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
But all the same, it is very beautiful here.
I was to discover that there is a world of difference between the sight of a man who has just been killed and that of a man who is about to be killed.
For love, too, is a kind of transformation.
It's not easy for a man to be alone with his thoughts.
Whoever looks upon the world as if it were a photograph is bound to feel a sense of wonder.
I had been looking for someone, but I didn't know who.
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Words have lives of their own.
A man is a fragile thing, and I have known enough of them to know that they break easily.
He thought it was humans who had created God, not the other way around.
