Shafak News Quotes

#1. What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. babe." "No, thank

Lena Black

#3. Is it true?" She asked. "Do you have a date?"
"For the love of-you know it's true! And you told Adrian didn't you?

Richelle Mead

#4. But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

Joan Dye Gussow

#6. Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

Austin O'Malley

#8. I was no longer sexually vulnerable to the death-by-sex Fae Prince.
Jericho Barrons was my poison now.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

Estelle Freedman

#10. You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks

Simon Holt

#11. Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

Ben Stein

#12. Of three things in this life she expected no good: a man who had sold his soul to Sheitan; a woman proud of her beauty; and the news that could not wait till the morning to be delivered.

Elif Shafak

#13. The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, like
I had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

Jose Emilio Pacheco

#14. The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

Paul Martin

#15. Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

Thornton Wilder