“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.” — Elif Shafak England Copy Share Image
“how both Armenian and Turkish stories tended to start with the same preamble: Once there was, once there wasn’t …” — Elif Shafak 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
“Whatever falls from the sky above, thou shall not curse it. That includes the rain” — Elif Shafak Rain Copy Share Image
“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.” — Elif Shafak Castle Copy Share Image
“Her insanın erafında bir renk halesi vardır. Seninkini biliyor musun?” — Elif Shafak Mint Copy Share Image
“geniuses think they’re not bound by the rules of common people.” — Elif Shafak Common people Copy Share Image
“Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“In this state I roam east and west, searching for God high and low. I hunrt everywhere for a life worth living… — Elif Shafak East and west Copy Share Image
“It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it… — Elif Shafak Fall in love Copy Share Image
“rule no 13: the quest for love changes us. there is no seeker among those who search for love who has not… — Elif Shafak Adventure Copy Share Image
“Od nje je naučio dvije osnovne stvari o ljubavi: prvo, da je, za razliku od onoga što romantici tako naduto tvrde, ljubav… — Elif Shafak Toga Copy Share Image
“It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every… — Elif Shafak Communication Copy Share Image
“On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your… — Elif Shafak Art Copy Share Image
“Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the… — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about… — Elif Shafak Relativism Copy Share Image
“The working hours were long and the pay not great. Still, no waiter had resigned to this day; instead they would get… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“As I do next to all women who glow with this kind of femininity, I feel like an impostor, a poor imitation… — Elif Shafak Femininity Copy Share Image
“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you… — Elif Shafak First step Copy Share Image
“Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of… — Elif Shafak Afraid Copy Share Image
“Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I… — Elif Shafak Death Copy Share Image
“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to change the life I am living? Am I ready to… — Elif Shafak Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With… — Elif Shafak Belief Copy Share Image
“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending… — Elif Shafak Flower Copy Share Image
“One of the most notorious slogans of ultra-nationalism in Turkey has been ‘Either love it or leave it!’ It is meant to… — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a… — Elif Shafak Elif-shafak Copy Share Image
“Peri disliked these dinner parties, which went on late into the night and often left her with a migraine the next day.… — Elif Shafak Istanbul 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
“I'm not one of those pious types who spend their whole lives hunched on prayer rugs while their eyes and hearts remain… — Elif Shafak Books Copy Share Image
“Hasan, the Begger: Believe it or not, they call this purgatory on earth “holy-suffering”. I am a leper stuck in limbo. Neither… — Elif Shafak Almost love Copy Share Image
“For despite what some people say, love is not a sweet feeling bound to come and quickly go away. In many ways… — Elif Shafak Greater love Copy Share Image
“My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked… — Elif Shafak Change Copy Share Image
“Si no le cuentas a nadie lo extraordinario, todo el mundo supone que es normal.” — Elif Shafak Amor Copy Share Image
