“geniuses think they’re not bound by the rules of common people.” — Elif Shafak Common people Copy Share Image
“Whatever falls from the sky above, thou shall not curse it. That includes the rain” — Elif Shafak Rain Copy Share Image
“There were many legends about these rocks and behind every legend a story of forbidden love.” — Elif Shafak Forbidden love Copy Share Image
“If you don't know what to do with an answer, don't ask the question.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“The civilized world is ahead of us; we have no choice but to catch up.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Love is only a sweet feeling bound to come and quickly go away.” — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.” — Elif Shafak England Copy Share Image
“Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.” — Elif Shafak Bread Copy Share Image
“Peri understood and accepted that some daughters were born with a mission: to fulfill their fathers' dreams. In doing so, they would… — Elif Shafak Children Copy Share Image
“I think God comes in many pieces and colours. I can build a peaceful God, all-loving. Or I can build an angry… — Elif Shafak God Copy Share Image
“Jokes in the face of calamity made one feel dirty, guilty; they also dissolved the fear and lessened the weight of uncertainty,… — Elif Shafak Comedy Copy Share Image
“about the great preacher. I wanted to see him through foreign eyes, kind and unkind, loving and unloving, before I looked on… — Elif Shafak Preacher Copy Share Image
“I have always clung, or maybe I wanted to cling, to bits and pieces of existence here and there, with no coherence,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for… — Elif Shafak God Copy Share Image
“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In… — Elif Shafak Book Copy Share Image
“When I met you, Peri, I thought this girl doesn't know it but she carries the three passion of Bertrand Russel: the… — Elif Shafak Compassion Copy Share Image
“Peri loved her father's tales. She had grown up with them. Yet the melancholy with which they were infused pierced her soul,… — Elif Shafak Parenting Copy Share Image
“Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“You see, dervish, it wasn't always like this. Violence wasn't my element, but it is now. When God forgets about us down… — Elif Shafak Common people Copy Share Image
“Was he talking about the Love of God or the love between a woman and a man? Could he be referring to… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“As a Sufi I had sworn to protect life and do no harm. In this world of illusions, so many people were… — Elif Shafak Life Copy Share Image
“Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“God was a maze without a map, a circle without a centre; the pieces of a jigsaw that never seemed to fit… — Elif Shafak Maze Copy Share Image
“إن كل إنسان عبارة عن كتاب مفتوح وكل واحد منا قران متنقل. إن البحث عن الله متأصل في قلوب الجميع سواء أكان… — Elif Shafak Books Copy Share Image
“There are things so awful in this world that the good-hearted people, may Allah bless them all, have absolutely no idea of.… — Elif Shafak Allah Copy Share Image
“It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Not that she had been to Cairo or Delhi. But, like many other Istanbulites, Peri held a firm belief that her city… — Elif Shafak Istanbul Copy Share Image
“When you kill someone, something from that person passes to you - a sigh, a smell or a gesture. I call it… — Elif Shafak Curse Copy Share Image
“It was all because of the traffic, she would later reassure herself. Rumbling, roaring, metal clanking against metal like the cries of… — Elif Shafak Gridlock Copy Share Image
“One day a man came running to a Sufi and said, panting, "Hey, they are carrying trays, look over there!" The Sufi… — Elif Shafak Business Copy Share Image
“The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you. Everything that you see around, including the things you might not be… — Elif Shafak Bright side Copy Share Image
“Joka kuvittelee tietävänsä kaikki vastaukset, on kaikkein tietämättömin.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“She left her breast behind, the breast that covered her heart. And walked away.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“if you are unwilling to change, do not enter into philosophical arguments” — Elif Shafak Arguments Copy Share Image
“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some… — Elif Shafak Grief Copy Share Image
“Lately she had decided to purge certain words from her vocabulary and now that she recalled that decision, why not start with… — Elif Shafak Language Copy Share Image
“When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me… — Elif Shafak Censorship Copy Share Image
“Behind all hardships was a larger scheme. I couldn’t make it out clearly, but I could feel it with my whole heart.” — Elif Shafak Hardships Copy Share Image
