Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. - Elif Şafak

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. 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.

She was a foreigner and, like all foreigners, she carried with her the shadow of an elsewhere.

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.