“Od nje je naučio dvije osnovne stvari o ljubavi: prvo, da je, za razliku od onoga što romantici tako naduto tvrde, ljubav… — Elif Shafak 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 Trees 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
“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.” — Elif Shafak Language Copy Share Image
“Her insanın erafında bir renk halesi vardır. Seninkini biliyor musun?” — Elif Shafak 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
“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.” — Elif Shafak 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 Islam 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
“Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you… — Elif Shafak Balm Copy Share Image
“Talent is a favor of the divine. To perfect it one must work hard.” — Elif Shafak Miracles Copy Share Image
“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting” — Elif Shafak Music Copy Share Image
“In many parts of the world you were what you said and what you did and, also, what you read; in Turkey,… — Elif Shafak Books 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 different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.” — Elif Shafak Different ways 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 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 Love Copy Share Image
“Faith, whichever way Selma understood it, infused her with a sense of surrender that could have been a cause of weakness had… — Elif Shafak Faith 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
“Peri disliked these dinner parties, which went on late into the night and often left her with a migraine the next day.… — Elif Shafak Loneliness 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 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 Bits and pieces Copy Share Image
