Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

Activity

You added a note
3 years, 11 months ago

Muhsin did not wish to be beholden to her

She lived for Muhsin and no one else. She devoted her entire life to him.

She had left everything behind, just to be at his side.

For him, she had withdrawn from society and locked herself up in an apartment.

She had done so for Muhsin.

But Muhsin did not wish to be beholden to her.

…

—p.259 In the Shadow of the Yali by Suat Derviş
You edited a vocabulary term
3 years, 11 months ago

peremptory

But if she had, was this the way to give him the news? With a cold and peremptory phone call?

i keep thinking this means like preemptive but it's more like, matter-of-fact, not expecting any debate, etc

—p.184 by Suat Derviş
strange
You added a vocabulary term
3 years, 11 months ago

peremptory

But if she had, was this the way to give him the news? With a cold and peremptory phone call?

i keep thinking this means like preemptive but it's more like, matter-of-fact, not expecting any debate, etc

—p.184 by Suat Derviş
strange
You added a note
3 years, 11 months ago

cutting the bonds of intimacy one by one

She could not say exactly how or when he’d been erased.

All she knew was that he’d vanished from her heart without a trace. She could no longer remember ever loving him or even feeling close to him.

If she felt anything about Ahmet, it was rage.

Rage that he had come into her life. Rage th…

—p.164 by Suat Derviş
You added a note
3 years, 11 months ago

in that case, don’t ever come again

Her eyes fixed on the mirror, she said: “If you asked me not to come again, I wouldn’t come.”

“In that case, don’t ever come again!”

She watched as the face in the mirror registered first surprise and then anguish. That face in the mirror—how it frightened her.

She turned her head. Eyes cl…

—p.146 by Suat Derviş