Elif Shafak Bastard Of Istanbul Quotes

#1. You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

Sophia Amoruso

#2. Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than
broken down.

Tennessee Williams

#3. I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

Emma Watson

#4. Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Arthur Helps

#6. Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?

Georgette Heyer

#7. A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Isak Dinesen

#8. Men are easily dealt with
but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

Mark Twain

#9. I tried to put my left arm around him too, but the vase of flowers in my hand tipped and peed water on my floor. Did I know how to do romance or what?

Devon Monk

#10. You could never know when everything might change - a mood, a decision, a blanket. A life. They

Richard Flanagan

#11. I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

Edward G. Robinson

#12. Don't be amongst those trying to build a better Tomorrow. We can have a better tomorrow only if our Today is better than our Yesterday.-RVM

R.v.m.

#13. I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

A.S. Byatt

#14. Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

Elif Shafak