You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains...

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.