Three Daughters of Eve

by Elif Shafak

‘In a democracy, when a man gets drunk, he cries, “What happened to my sweetheart?” Where there is no democracy, when a man gets drunk, he cries, “What happened to my sweet country?” ’

I think God comes in many pieces and colours. I can build a peaceful God, all-loving. Or I can build an angry God, punishing. Or maybe I’ll build nothing. God is a Lego set.

“The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.”