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

How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? 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.

The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilisation was not half as frightening as the simple realisation that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on just the same with or without us.

الله. تنهدت، إنك أقرب إلي من حبل وريدي. ساعدني على الخروج من هذه المحنة. أن تمنحني نعمة الجهل، أو أن تمنحني القوة لأتحمل المعرفة. أي شيء تختاره سيرضيني، لكن أرجوك لا تجعلني ضعيفة وعارفة في الوقت نفسه.