“لو عرفوا ان لديك قلبا من الزجاج لكسروه”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“يقال ان القهوة مثل الحب، كلما صبرت عليها اكثر ازداد طعمها حلاوة”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“الأمهات لا يذهبن للجنة بعد وفاتهن، بل يحصلن على إذن خاص من الله للبقاء فى الجوار مدة أطول للعناية بأطفالهن”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“احتفظ بالسـر لنفسك ..
اذ لا يمكنك الوثوق بأي شخص ، ولو حتى بقصبة ..!”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“ما السبب الذي يجعل الناس الغرباء تماماً أكثر تسامحاً من أقرب الناس ؟”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“ثمة شيئان في هذا العالم يخرجان الرجل من مرحلة الصبا و هما، حبه لأمرأة و كرهه لرجل ثانٍ”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“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, quote from Honor
“عندما نحب و عندما نكون محبوبين، وعندما نكون متحررين من طاقة الآذي، فأننا نقترب من الجنة”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“كيف يمكنك أن تمنعي شخصا من القراءة إذا كنت تلقنينه الحروف الأبجدية، وكيف يمكن لمن ذاقت الحب إن لا تظمأ له ؟؟!!”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“كان حبّها معوضا عن الأشياء الضائعة و الزمن الضائع”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“There were many odd things about human beings. They thought insects were disgusting but felt lucky when a ladybird landed on their fingers. They detested rats but loved squirrels. While they found vultures repulsive, they thought eagles impressive. They despised mosquitoes and flies, but were fond of fire-flies. Even though copper and iron were medicinally important, it was gold that they worshipped instead. They took no notice of the stones under their feet but went mad for polished gems.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“They didn't hear her , but it was enough that GOD did”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“İnsan belli bir yaşa gelince kendi hudutları ve hatalarıyla barışmaya başlıyor.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“There were many legends about these rocks and behind every legend a story of forbidden love.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“I don’t think I’ll ever become a real writer and that’s quite all right now. I’ve reached an age at which I’m more at peace with my limitations and failures.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Hazmedememişti İskender bu ihaneti. Sevip de kandırmayı. İnsanın canı kadar sevdiği birini oyuna getirebileceği aklının ucundan dahi geçmemişti. O güne dek bilmezdi, birine bütün kalbinle muhabbet besleyip yine de onu incitmek istemenin mümkün olabileceğini.
Sevginin ve aşkın karmakarışık halleri üzerine aldığı ilk hayat dersiydi bu.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Sistemin dışında kalırsan içeride anlamlı bir değişiklik yapabilmenin mümkün olmadığını öğrendi. Ancak sistemin bir parçası haline gelmek de insanın ruhunu yok ederdi. Söyle bakalım, bir şeyin içindeyken dışında durmayı nasıl başarırsın ufaklık?”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Bakışıyoruz. Sonunda geldi işte o an. Benden ne kadar nefret ettiğini gösterebilecek.Ben de hislerinin karşılıksız olmadığını.Artık rol yapmaya gerek yok.Olduğumuzdan daha iyiymişiz gibi yapmayacağız artık. Neysek oyuz.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Büyüdükçe ve peşinden koştuğu her emeli elinden kaçırdıkça bütün şeylerin geçici olduğunu karar verdi.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Mothers don't go to heaven when they die. They get special permission from God to stay around a bit longer and watch over their children, no matter what has passed between them in their brief mortal lives.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“İnsan ömrü kısaydı, bir kurtçuğunkinden farksız. Ya da ipekböceğininkinden. Ademoğulları, Havvakızları tuhaf mahluklardı. Kurtçuğa benzetsen alınır, ipekböceğine benzetilmekten keyif duyarlardı. Böceklerden iğrenir ama parmaklarına uğurböceği konsa hayra alamet sayarlardı. Sıçanlardan tiksinir, sincaplara bayılırlardı. Akbabaları itici, kartalları heybetli bulurlardı. Sinekleri hor görür, ateşböceklerine bayılırlardı. Bakır ve demire ehemmiyet vermez, altına taparlardı. Ayaklarının altındaki taşlara dönüp bakmazken mücevherler için delirirlerdi.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Kadınlar ikiye ayrılır, derdi. Bariz biçimde karmaşık olanlar ile karmaşık olduğu ilk bakışta anlaşılmayanlar.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“..zira biliyordu ki minnettar olunca daha zordu delirmek.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Peki ya diger renkler diye sormak istemis. Eflatunlar, turuncular menekseler...Ya diger kumaslar? Pazenler, basmalar, ipekler, kadifeler...Ne demeye siyah beyaza indiriyorduk su alemi, bu kadar cesitli yaratmisken Yaradan?”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“The Germans invited you to their country to work, not to mingle, and expected you to leave as soon as you were no longer needed. Adapting to their ways was like trying to embrace a hedgehog. There might be a secret tenderness, a gentle core underneath, but you couldn’t pass the sharp needles to tap into it.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Миналото е ракла на тавана, наблъскана с какви ли не неща, някои ценни, други напълно безполезни. Предпочитам да я държа затворена, но тя се отваря и от най-лекия повей на вятъра, сякаш по своя воля, и още преди да съм се усетила, съдържанието й се разпилява наоколо. Връщам нещата обратно. Едно по едно. Спомените, хубавите и лошите, колкото раклата да се отключи отново точно когато го очаквам най-малко.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Czasami najkrótsza droga wiedzie tym szlakiem, którym podąża przyjaciel.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Wszyscy jesteśmy po trosze głupcami, a po trosze mędrcami. Nie ma mądrości bez głupoty. Ani dumy bez wstydu.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Не биваше да показва нито на него, нито на друг, че е несъвършена, уязвима, човек като всички останали. Ако знаят, че носиш сърце от стъкло, ще го разбият.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
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“You remember that Christmas when they got ill?" Mum says presently. "The year they were about two and three? Remember? And got poo all over their Christmas stockings, and it was everywhere, and we said, "It has to get easier than this"?"
"I remember."
"We were cleaning it all up and we kept saying to each other, "When they get older, it'll get easier." Remember?"
"I do." Dad looks fondly at her.
" Well bring back the poo." Mum begins to laugh, a bit hysterically. "I would do anything for a bit of poo right now."
"I dream of poo," says Dad firmly, and Mum laughs even more, till she's wiping tears from her eyes.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Finding Audrey
“Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry.
"I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion.
"I love you!" Silas cried, as he followed.
They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from The Painted Veil
“Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it.
That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel.”
― Helen Fielding, quote from Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
“I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech in his person - well, that Arab would be at Marrakech, not I : I should still be seated in my room, placid and meditative as is my chosen life, two thousand miles away from the Moroccan and his burnoose. In my room. Forever.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from The Age of Reason
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