“If you want to destroy something, be it a blemish, acne or the human soul, all you need to do is surround… — 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 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
“As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed… — Elif Shafak Books 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 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
“Different subjects required different sitting arrangements, Azur explained. For politics, scattered and amorphous; for sociology, a neat triangle; for statistics, a rectangle;… — Elif Shafak Different subjects Copy Share Image
“That, too, was one of his rules: Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t… — Elif Shafak Face value Copy Share Image
“This he had noticed while doing his military service back in Turkey. When more than three people slept in a narrow place,… — Elif Shafak Breaths Copy Share Image
“Silence is the worst. Whenever a thick cloud of silence descends, the yapping voices inside me become all the more audible, rising… — Elif Shafak Silence Copy Share Image
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What… — Elif Shafak Crescent moon 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
“You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are… — Elif Shafak Approval of others Copy Share Image
“It was a modest, out-of-the-way place in downtown Tucson, the only shrine in America dedicated to the soul of a sinner, reported… — Elif Shafak Shrine 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 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
“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
“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 Father 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
“There's something about love that resembles faith. It's kind of blind trust, isn't it? The sweetest euphoria. The magic of connecting with… — Elif Shafak Blind trust Copy Share Image
![“It was a modest, out-of-the-way place in downtown Tucson, the only shrine in America dedicated to the soul of a sinner, reported the historical plaque there. [...] He went there because that was the one holy place that didn't compel him to change into someone else in order to welcome him.” quote by Elif Shafak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1f/elif-shafak-1594_quote_it-was-a-modest-out-of-the-way-place-in_2071146.jpg)
