“Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire. The universe turns differently when fire loves water.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, Soul, Fire, Water, Earth
“I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, Change
“Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, Hate, Envy
“The way to a man’s heart can sometimes take a woman far away from herself, my dear.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love Is Blind
“I'd rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven, so that people could start loving God for no other than love.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, God, Unconditional Love
“Some people make the mistake of confusing ‘submission’ with ‘weakness,’ whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Weakness, Submission, Control
“It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Hard Times, Acceptane, Love
“What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Patience, Hope
“For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com