Elisa Zadro

“It crossed his mind that maybe one of the most telling differences between the young and the old lay in this detail. As you aged you cared less and less about what others thought of you, and only then could you be more free.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“bridges appear in our lives only when we are ready to cross them.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“But if you are going to claim, as humans do, to be superior to all life forms, past and present, then you must gain an understanding of the oldest living organisms on earth who were here long before you arrived and will still be here after you have gone.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees