Author of quotes: Elif Shafak. Page 18

Every time after a storm on the shore you could see the washed-up sea dwellers. Elias was always struck by how helpless they are in an unfamiliar environment. Later, while living in Western cities and observing first-generation immigrants, he always remembered the pictures I had seen on the beach. People, torn from his usual environment, also became a helpless, defenseless, vulnerable. They also wanted to wave picked up by them and carried into a familiar element, where they can freely breathe and move. Or that shore took them as their own and became their real home.

Every blade of grass, every stone hides a secret that has invested in them God. People these secrets usually unknown. They look at the mistletoe and all I see is vine-parasite, obvivshem tree trunk, unaware that mistletoe is able to improve blood circulation. Jamil knew that in order to have knowledge, one must achieve confidence. If nature trusts you, she will reveal her secrets. Not immediately, gradually. Over time you will learn all about the healing power of plants. And not only. You realize that in the universe nothing is small, nothing is insignificant, because any bit of it gives the answer to some important question. It all depends on how penetrating your eyes.

When people are faced with things that are beyond their understanding, they give their imagination free rein. Stories they invent, deliver them from the agonizing bewilderment, for which life provides too many reasons. Take our stay in this world, is so brief and fleeting.

A person can escape to the edge of the world, but cannot escape her past...

How quickly things change. In this world nothing is permanent. Life is a stream that never stops.

Fanatic to say that it's bad, I'm one good.
Zishan to say that all is well, I'm one bad.

The real world where real people live, like a mixture of mud and sugar and by the way, has about the same taste.

In this world, the word "honor" was not just a word but a name. But this name was only given to boys. Only men had the privilege of, whether they be old men, men in the Prime of life or even a boy on the lips which are still wet their mother's milk. Women of honor was not. Honor was replaced by shame. But wearing this name of Shame would not wish anyone.

Love is a disease, and although love finds strength and rises in spirit, love is still a disease.

Words is causing problems, so she thought. Because of the words people don't understand each other. So she was afraid of people who can cleverly play with words: journalists, writers, lawyers. Mom loved songs and prayers, because there are words and if you have the meaning secondary.

The human mind needs new ideas. Otherwise it will not work, as well as an automobile engine without gasoline. But the book is a rich source of ideas.

We can't love your finger more than the other. And with children. We can't give preference to some of them.

The weapons industry and the beauty industry are two major sectors of Western industry. With the help of the arms industry movers and shakers of the modern world killing people, keep them in subjection and fear. But the beauty industry is no lesser evil. All these fashion magazines, stunning dresses, effeminate men and masculine women, distract people from the real issues. The beauty industry helps to manipulate public opinion.

Calendar - the most stupid invention ever. If, as you say, time flies, the speed is constantly changing. It would be nice to come up with a calendar that caters for that. For example, tolerable days there would be white and equal to two standard units. Emergency days - red color and equal to two standard units. And bad days - black color and is equal to three standard units. Then it would be clear that the man from whom the whole month was some bad days, actually lived three times more than the one in which all the days were tolerable. You can do simple arithmetic, and it becomes clear why some people age faster than others.