إن البحث عن الله متأصل في قلوب الجميع، سواء أكان وليا أم قديسا أم مومسا. فالحب يقبع فى داخل كل منا منذ اللحظة التى نولد فيها، وينتظر الفرصة التي يظهر… - Elif Şafak

No one can survive alone – except the Almighty God. And remember, in the desert of life, the fool travels alone and the wise by caravan.

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.

In many parts of the world you were what you said and what you did and, also, what you read; in Turkey, as in all countries haunted by questions of identity, you were, primarily, what you rejected. It seemed that the more people went on about an author, the less likely it was that they had read their books.