Ruby Manougian

“(The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’ must be ironic because people hate themselves.)”
― Adam Phillips, On Kindness

“We should call on the Creator to show more modesty. He created the world in a frenzy of excitement. Instead of revising his rough drafts, he had his work printed straightaway. What a lot of contradictions there are in it. What a log of typing errors, inconsistencies in the plot, passages that are too long and wordy, characters that are entirely superfluous. But it is painful and difficult to cut and trim the living cloth of a book written and published in too much of a hurry”
― Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook

“Farklı disiplinleri sentezleyin. Merak ediyorsanız Tanrı'yı, ne olur yalnızca dine odaklanmayın artık. Dinsel kavgalar ve çekişmeler insanlığı böler, zihinlerinizi mühürler. Matematiğe, fiziğe, müziğe, resme, şiire, dansa başvurun. Sanat özünde bir arayıştır. Tanrı ilmi de arayıştır. Demek ki, Tanrı'ya inansanız da, inanmasanız da konuya yaratıcılıkla yaklaşabilirsiniz.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“Azur smiled as if he were expecting these answers and said, 'The Malady of Certainty.'

Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With certainty came arrogance; with arrogance, blindness; with blindness, darkness; and with darkness, more certainty. This he called, the converse nature of convictions.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı