“Miracles only grow where you plant them.”
― The Year I Met You
― The Year I Met You
“At last everything was falling into place. Falling into love.”
― The Blue Between Sky and Water
― The Blue Between Sky and Water
“If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.”
― Istanbul
― Istanbul
“I knew nothing of that kind of love. I knew nothing about pearls and shells either except that one had to free itself from the other. We were both calmer than we should have been, Benafsha because she had lived her love, and me because I had never known it.”
― The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
― The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
“Whenever I find myself talking of the beauty and the poetry of the Bosphorus and Istanbul’s dark streets, a voice inside me warns against exaggeration, a tendency perhaps motivated by a wish not to acknowledge the lack of beauty in my own life. If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too. A”
― Istanbul
― Istanbul
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