“Painfully delicate and surprisingly strong, silk resembles love.” — Elif Shafak Love 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 Copy Share Image
“Readying for prayer was like shoving into a cupboard all the junk and clutter, before God came to visit the house of… — Elif Shafak God 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
“Tragedy was a commodity like any other. it was meant to be consumed- individually and collectively.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“She left her breast behind, the breast that covered her heart. And walked away.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Time, like a skilful tailor, had seamlessly stitched together the two fabrics that sheathed Peri’s life: what people thought of her and… — Elif Shafak Broken pieces Copy Share Image
“When you meet different person, another name, another religion, that’s all good. We learn from difference, not from sameness.” — Elif Shafak Different person 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 Dead Copy Share Image
“You dervishes are as crazy as rats in a pantry. Especially you wandering types. All day long you fast and pray and… — Elif Shafak Hallucinations 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
“...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
“Was he talking about the Love of God or the love between a woman and a man? Could he be referring to… — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“Peri felt the energy in her father's hand ebb; his fingers grew light and bloodless, the hand of a cadaver waiting to… — Elif Shafak Parenting 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
“I cannot prevent people from destroying. All I can do is keep building.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“As for women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads. Their surnames are here today, gone tomorrow. Throughout their… — Elif Shafak Different ways 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 Copy Share Image
“Invisible strands of solidarity threaded among strangers who, upon finding out they shared the same religion or nationality, developed an instant affinity.” — Elif Shafak Religion 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 Copy Share Image
“Things that can seem malicious or unfortunate are often a blessing in disguise, whereas things that might seem pleasant 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
“There was something frighteningly dangerous in the expectation that someone had the answer to most of our questions, and that through that… — Elif Shafak 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 Fear Copy Share Image
“Love is only a sweet feeling bound to come and quickly go away.” — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
