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Whatever falls from the sky above, thou shall not curse it. That includes the rain — Elif Shafak

Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. — Elif Shafak

Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird. — Elif Shafak

The past is anything but bygone — Elif Shafak

Politics divide us. Fiction connects. — Elif Shafak

The water that scares you rejuvenates me. For me I can swim, and swim I shall. — Elif Shafak

How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated. — Elif Shafak

Naked female bodies with their legs apart, a granny and her sagging tits. Terrified, — Elif Shafak

There is no together anymore. Once a pomegranate breaks and all its seeds scatter in differetnt directions, you cannot put it back together. — Elif Shafak

Don't underestimate the good in you — Elif Shafak

If you don't know what to do with an answer, don't ask the question. — Elif Shafak

(T)here are friendships in this world that seem incomprehensible to ordinary people, but are in fact conduits to deeper wisdom and insight. — Elif Shafak

For the same reason, he believed that love had nothing to do with "plans for tomorrow" or "memories of yesterday." Love could only be here and now. — Elif Shafak

As well. One of them was quite pesky, insisting — Elif Shafak

And were you able to find Him?" I inquired.
A shadow crossed his face as the dervish noded and said.
"Indeed, He was with me all along. — Elif Shafak

Believers are each other's mirrors. — Elif Shafak

But now she wasn't sure if she could concentrate on a subject as irrelevant to her life as Sufism and a time as distant as the thirteenth century. — Elif Shafak

No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within. — Elif Shafak

Talent is a favor of the divine. To perfect it one must work hard. — Elif Shafak

Let love take hold of you and change you. At first through its presence then through its absence. — Elif Shafak

But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ... — Elif Shafak

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache. — Elif Shafak

Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first "feamle" and only then "writers". — Elif Shafak

Perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind. — Elif Shafak

It is not up to us to judge and measure each other's devoutness. — Elif Shafak

Since when is being a rotten drunkard a symbol of freedom? — Elif Shafak

The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh. — Elif Shafak

What difference did it make whether they were hurt or happy, right or wrong, when the sun rose and the moon waned just the same, with or without them? — Elif Shafak

Sanity was a promised land, the Shangri-la she had been deported from as a teenager, and to which she intended to return to one day. — Elif Shafak

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away. — Elif Shafak

There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life. — Elif Shafak

The past in an interpretation. The future is an illusion. — Elif Shafak

Whatever you do, she would have said, don't hurt anyone and don't let anyone hurt you. Be neither a heartbreaker nor heartbroken. — Elif Shafak

It's odd how faces, solid and visible as they are, evaporate, while words, made of breath, stay. — Elif Shafak

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human. — Elif Shafak

Be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses — Elif Shafak

Rebelliousness is not a good quality in a novice. — Elif Shafak

Religions are like rivers: they all flow to the same sea. — Elif Shafak

How amazing was this ability to achieve plenty by achieving little, to go home empty-handed yet still satisfied at the end of the day! — Elif Shafak

In an age of deeply embedded bigotries and clashes, he stood for a universal spirituality, opening his doors to people of all backgrounds. — Elif Shafak

Deep inside, Ella blamed herself. She hadn't aged well — Elif Shafak

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you. — Elif Shafak

Love can only be perfected in pain. — Elif Shafak

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul. — Elif Shafak

May love always be with you, and you always surrounded by love — Elif Shafak

Love is the water of life. Lover is a soul of fire.
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water, — Elif Shafak

In love all boundaries are blurred. — Elif Shafak

An aura surrounds every living thing, an aura in a different colour each time. Do you know what colour is yours? — Elif Shafak

But Istanbul is a city of easy forgettings. Things are written in water over there, except the works of my master, which are written in stone. — Elif Shafak

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture. — Elif Shafak

When you have both eyes closed to the world, a third eye opens in your heart. — Elif Shafak

Intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected — Elif Shafak

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life. — Elif Shafak

A saint belongs to all humanity. — Elif Shafak

Only humans have consciousness. It's divine order. That's why Allah hold us humans responsible fir our behavior. — Elif Shafak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Elif Shafak

People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.

-Three Daughters of Eve — Elif Shafak

Mourning is like virginity. You should give it to the one who deserves it most. — Elif Shafak

Home isn't where it used to be. Home is anywhere you hang your head. — Elif Shafak

There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul. — Elif Shafak

Never underestimate the power of envy. — Elif Shafak

The Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. — Elif Shafak

Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love. — Elif Shafak

On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you. — Elif Shafak

Sometimes, for the soul to thrive, the heart needs to be broken, son. — Elif Shafak

Choice and confusion were conjoined twins — Elif Shafak

Irrationality is part of everyday rationale — Elif Shafak

Aziz was that rare type of man a woman could love without losing her self-respect. — Elif Shafak

Beyond wildest dreams, strange things happened to people when they were ready for the unusual and the unexpected. — Elif Shafak

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge. — Elif Shafak

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow. — Elif Shafak

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you. — Elif Shafak

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel. — Elif Shafak

When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet. — Elif Shafak

Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life of
Love, living is a burden - as you have seen. — Elif Shafak

Tragedy was a commodity like any other. it was meant to be consumed- individually and collectively. — Elif Shafak

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. — Elif Shafak

A broken heart hides treasures." As — Elif Shafak

About the great preacher. I wanted to see him through foreign eyes, kind and unkind, loving and unloving, before I looked on him with my own. — Elif Shafak

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere? — Elif Shafak

Does what we do in life matter so much? Or is it what we don't do that carries weight? — Elif Shafak

If only humans could live exposed to the skies, open and unafraid, watching the stars and being watched by them, with nothing to hide. — Elif Shafak

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming. — Elif Shafak

No eye sees so clear and sharp as the eye of love. — Elif Shafak

In love, boundaries are blurred — Elif Shafak

Love is the reason. Love is the goal. — Elif Shafak

I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for me. — Elif Shafak

Learn the truth, my friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths. — Elif Shafak

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. — Elif Shafak

Not every word is fit for every ear. — Elif Shafak

Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to. — Elif Shafak

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow. — Elif Shafak

We're all what we are. And we're all subject to change. It is a journey from here to there. — Elif Shafak

Once there was, once there wasn't, God's creature were as plentiful as grains and talking too much was a sin. — Elif Shafak

She left her breast behind, the breast that covered her heart. And walked away. — Elif Shafak

Life often felt unjust, but death was the biggest injustice. — Elif Shafak

For apprentices everywhere - no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master — Elif Shafak

(N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place? — Elif Shafak

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller. — Elif Shafak

If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time. — Elif Shafak