It's a reversal and a slap in the face of how many of us deceive ourselves and get promoted to the first and second person singular.

“I never had anyone like you in my life. There were always people who wanted something from me, who took something from me. Their desires were always clear, dirty. You are a stranger to me. You're unlike anyone or anything I've ever known. If another Sırma, another person from that world appeared in front of me, I know how I would cope. How I would sink, how I would finish, how I would burn, how I would escape...”