Amir Zaib

“In his belief that all idols that stood between the individual and God had to be demolished, including fame, wealth, rank, and even religion, Shams cut loose all the moorings that tied me to life as I knew it. Wherever he saw any kind of mental boundary, a prejudice or a taboo, he took the bull by the horns and confronted it.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“but I also knew that girls who got married changed forever. A new gaze came to their eyes, and they took on a new demeanor, to such an extent that people started to treat them differently. Even little children could tell the difference between a married woman and an unmarried one. Gevher smiled tenderly and held my hand. She had noticed that it was the getting-married part that worried me, not getting married to Shams.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“strange things happened to people when they were ready for the unusual and the unexpected.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naïvely think that with their love they can change the men they love.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love