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“आसान नहीं था इस तरह अपनी जड़ें छोड़ कर चल देना। और उस पर ये भी पता नहीं था। कहाँ और कैसे बीजे जायेंगे। बीजे जायेंगे भी या नहीं। पेड़ से टूटी शाख़ों को अक्सर देखा था, धूप में सूखते, टूटते और फिर गर्द में रुल जाते ! !”
― Gulzar, दो लोग [Do Log]

“How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.”
― elif shafak

“Because there are times when we all need the company of the bad,”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“There are things so awful in this world that the good-hearted people, may Allah bless them all, have absolutely no idea of.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“love loves power. That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“all happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“When you didn’t tell anyone the extraordinary, everyone assumed the normal,”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“If you cannot find a reason to love the life you are living, do not pretend to love the life you are living.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“If you have no interest in their answers, then do not ask questions.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“The past is nothing but a shackle we need to get rid of. Such an excruciating burden.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“The soul needs to shiver to wake up,”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“The oppressor has no use for the past. The oppressed has nothing but the past,”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Sometimes, absence is actually a bond and distance can help you to look closer.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Time heals the broken. Sometimes, the healing is slow. Sometimes, it is slower. You cannot predict how long it will take before one forgets what it all felt like—heartbreak, the pain, the anguish, and that emptiness. Years could roll by, and you’d have done ten million different things to keep yourself from thinking, and yet, the mind would remember that moment when your life fell apart and crushed you whole.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchao

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library