#elif shafak

[perfectfeelings]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[smokefalls]

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it is left behind.

Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

[askyea-poesy]

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Elif Shafak

[thoughtkick]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[strokeofserenity]

Elif Shafak, “The Bastard of Istanbul.”

[perfectquote]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[stay-close]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[booksmyquerencia]

February 14th, 2025

“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

— Jane Austen

[thehopefulquotes]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[quotefeeling]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[nobeerreviews]

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

-- Elif Shafak

(Giza, Egypt)

[resqectable]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[smokefalls]

There are extraordinary people who appear unexpectedly on our paths, and, just as suddenly, they disappear, leaving their indelible marks and a sense of regret. Brief and bright, like a match striking a flame in the dark, they heat the damp kindling of our hearts and then they are gone.

Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

[kelimelersogukkokuyor]

"sıradan bir sonbahar günüydü istanbul'da, birini öldürebileceğini anladığında. bu hikâye, diğerlerinden pek de farkı olmayan, kurşun gibi ağır ve fazlasıyla sakin bir akşamüstü başladı."

[strokeofserenity]

Jodi Picoult // Elif Shafak

[perfectquote]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love