10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

by Elif Shafak

And remember, in the desert of life, the fool travels alone and the wise by caravan.’

‘Grief is a swallow,’ he said. ‘One day you wake up and you think it’s gone, but it’s only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.’