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 Şafak

إذا كنا نتناول الطعام نفسه, ونغني الأغاني الحزينة ذاتها, ونؤمن بالخرافات عينها, ونحلم بذات الأحلام, فلم لا نكون قادرين على العيش معاً؟

Not a very sensible thing to do, I admit, to fall for someone who is not of your kind, someone who will only complicate your life, disrupt your routine and mess with your sense of stability and rootedness. But, then again, anyone who expects love to be sensible has perhaps never loved.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being — you. Everything that you see around, including the things you might not be fond of and even the people you despise or abhor, is present within you in varying degrees. Therefore, do not look for Sheitan outside yourself either. The devil is not an extraordinary force that attacks from without. It is an ordinary voice within. If you get to know yourself fully, facing with honesty and hardness both your dark and bright sides, you will arrive at a
supreme form of consciousness. When a person knows himself or herself, he or she knows God.