Rumsha

“once there was, once there wasn't, God's creature were as plentiful as grains and talking too much was a sin.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Imagination was a dangerously captivating magic for those compelled to be realistic in life, and words could be poisonous for those destined always to be silenced.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul