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The Island of Missing Trees'ten En Beğenilen Alıntılar
Because there is one thing I have learned: wherever there is war and a painful partition, there will be no winners, human or otherwise.
📖 Sayfa 190 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Arriving there is what you are destined for
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But do not hurry the journey at all...
You know what I've been thinking since? I've been thinking that you are my country. Is that a strange thing to say? Without you, I don't have a home in this world; I am a felled tree, my roots severed all round; you can topple me with the touch of a finger.
📖 Sayfa 183 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
No marriage, no husband, no possessions, no domestic obligations, thank you very much! Instead she would travel the world until she found what she was looking for.
📖 Sayfa 61 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
When you hold a skull in your hands, can you tell if it's Christian or Muslim? All that bloodshed, for what? Stupid, stupid wars..
📖 Sayfa 206 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Because the past is a dark, distorted mirror. You look at it, you only see your own pain. There is no room in there for someone else’s pain.
📖 Sayfa 112 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Rules were what gave life a structure and rules had to be obeyed
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Her mother had understood unruly thoughts, naughty thoughts, the dark side of the moon. She once said, half jokingly, that she was too rebellious to be a good mum, too motherly to be a good rebel. Only now, after she was gone, did Ada acknowledge that, despite everything, she was a good mum - and a good rebel.
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War is a terrible thing. All kinds of wars. But civil wars are the worst perhaps, when old neighbours become new enemies.
📖 Sayfa 312 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Because that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.
📖 Sayfa 55 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where their bring ends and someone else's starts.
📖 Sayfa 30 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
It is a curse, an enduring memory..
📖 Sayfa 34 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
And love? She might have answered this question differently until today, but now she was certain love ought to be called 'a deceptive thing with heartbreak in the end
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As you aged you cared less and less about what others thought of you, and only then could you be more free.
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Or perhaps I should say, in one lif I have lived several, which is another way of saying, I am old.
📖 Sayfa 54 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Time is a songbird, and just like any other songbird it can be taken captive.
📖 Sayfa 9 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
The places where we were born are the shape of our lives, even when we are away from then. Especially then.
📖 Sayfa 33 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
But none of that answered the one question burning in her mind: was it also possible to inherit something as intangible and immeasurable as sorrow?
📖 Sayfa 18 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
I'm not saying it's easy for the people who left I'm sure they have their own hardships, but they have no idea what it was like for the ones who stayed.
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Some day this pain will be useful to you.
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‘I’ll come to the island,’ Ada said, a new note in her voice. ‘I just want to meet islanders, like myself.’
📖 Sayfa 360 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Perhaps what they said about happiness was true, after all : it was contagious
📖 Sayfa 93 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
The places where we were born are the shape of our lives, even when we are away from them.
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.
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Without understanding our past, how can we hope to shape our future?
📖 Sayfa 11 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Where do you start someone's story when every life has more than one thread and what we call birth is not the only beginning nor is death exactly an end?
📖 Sayfa 56 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Good advice is always annoying and bad advice never is
📖 Sayfa 175 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey.
📖 Sayfa 196 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
No captivity is forever.
📖 Sayfa 5 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
(Hiçbir esaret sonsuza kadar sürmez.)
you are young and the young are impatient. They can’t wait for school to be over and life to begin. But let me tell you a secret: it already has! This is what life is. Boredom, frustration, trying to get out of things, longing for something better.
📖 Sayfa 175 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
We are scared of happiness, you see.
📖 Sayfa 129 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Time is a songbird, and just like any other songbird it can be taken captive. It can be held prisoner in a cage and for even longer than you might think possible. But time cannot be kept in check in perpetuity. No captivity is forever.
📖 Sayfa 5 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
But nothing they did or said could be worse than her hatred for herself just then.
📖 Sayfa 18 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
But legends are there to tell us what history has forgotten..
📖 Sayfa 1 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
At the end of the day, we all remember for the same reason we try to forget: to survive in a world that neither understands no values us.
📖 Sayfa 100 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
When you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Humans teach their children to paint the earth in one colour alone. They im agine the sky in blue, the grass in green, the sun in yellow and the earth entirely in brown. If they only knew they have rainbows under their feet.
📖 Sayfa 80 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
The voices of our motherlands never stop echoing in our minds. We carry them with us everywhere we go.
📖 Sayfa 341 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
There are many things that a border cannot prevent from crossing
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A different language, a different script, a different memory prevailed in each, and when they prayed, the islanders, it was seldom to the same god.
📖 Sayfa 2 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Because the past is a dark, distorted mirror. You look at it only see your own pain. There is no room in there for someone else's pain.
📖 Sayfa 112 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
It will have blood: They say blood will have blood.
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak. -Macbeth
"Throughout my long life, I have observed, again and again, this psychological pendulum that drives human nature. Every few decades they sway into a zone of unbridled optimism and insist on seeing everything through a rosy filter, only to be challanged and shaken by events and capatulted back into their habitual apathy and listless indifference."
📖 Sayfa 531 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
The greater your powers of retention, the slimmer your chances at optimism..
📖 Sayfa 34 · The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Şafak
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“Because there is one thing I have learned: wherever there is war and a painful partition, there will be no winners, human or otherwise.”