“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
“Religious people are so confident of having God by their side that they think they are superior to everyone else” — Elif Shafak Confidence Copy Share Image
“Things that can seem malicious or unfortunate are often a blessing in disguise, whereas things that might seem unpleasant can be harmful… — Elif Shafak Blessing in disguise 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual.… — Elif Shafak Inspirational quotes Copy Share Image
“Motherlands are beloved, no doubt; sometimes they can also be exasperating and maddening.Yet I have also come to learn that for writers… — Elif Shafak Motherland Copy Share Image
“Put in my place by these words, I jumped to my feet and bowed before the peasant. How could I, a minor… — Elif Shafak Apologize 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 God love 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 Ask yourself 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
“Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic… — Elif Shafak Bomb Meant 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
“By and large, the narrow-minded say that dancing is sacrilege. They think God gave us music—not only the music we make with… — Elif Shafak Dance Copy Share Image
“Armanoush had a feeling that beneath Auntie Varsenig's constant objection to her reading lay a more structural, if not primordial, concern: a… — Elif Shafak Armenian Copy Share Image
“Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead… — Elif Shafak Connection Copy Share Image
“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps… — Elif Shafak Creative writing Copy Share Image
“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos… — Elif Shafak Bad time 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
“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 Bits and pieces 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
“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
“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting” — Elif Shafak Israel Copy Share Image
“There was something frighteningly dangerous in the expectation that someone had the answer to most of our questions, and that through that… — Elif Shafak Dangerous Expectation Copy Share Image
“An aura surrounds every living thing, an aura in a different colour each time. Do you know what colour is yours?” — Elif Shafak Aura Copy Share Image
“While some people were passionate believers and others passionate non-believers, she would always remain stuck in between” — Elif Shafak Non Believers Copy Share Image
“The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in. Time is just an… — Elif Shafak Elif-shafak Copy Share Image
“Someone who plants in your heart a lifetime of things so pleasant yet so minute you don’t realize how much you have… — Elif Shafak Lifetime Copy Share Image
“be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in… — Elif Shafak Flower Copy Share Image
“In the sheltered bosom of faith, one found the answers by letting go of the questions; one advanced by surrendering.” — Elif Shafak Faith Copy Share Image
“For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet feeling bound to come and quickly go away. Her” — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process” — Elif Shafak End result Copy Share Image
“Busbecq believed there were two blessings in life: books and friends. And that they should be possessed in inverse quantities: many books,… — Elif Shafak Blessings in life Copy Share Image
“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to… — Elif Shafak Companions Copy Share Image
