Fall in love Quote by Elif Shafak

“There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Had I been told Istanbul used to be a poorer, smaller and happier city, I might not have believed it, but that’s what my…

— Orhan Pamuk

“It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a hollowness in…

— Elif Shafak

People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the…

— Burhan Sonmez

“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed…

— Ian Fleming

“Mevlut had been in Istanbul for twenty years. It was sad to see the old face of the city as he had come to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Not that she had been to Cairo or Delhi. But, like many other Istanbulites, Peri held a firm belief that her city was more…

— Elif Shafak

“In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“When they fall in love with a city it is for forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it.…

— Toni Morrison

“It was all because of the traffic, she would later reassure herself. Rumbling, roaring, metal clanking against metal like the cries of a thousand…

— Elif Shafak

“It happened all the time in this city that encompassed seven hills, two continents, three seas and fifteen million mouths. It happened behind closed…

— Elif Shafak