Laraib Ghaffar

“Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

“Mothers don't go to heaven when they die. They get special permission from God to stay around a bit longer and watch over their children, no matter what has passed between them in their brief mortal lives.”
― Elif Shafak, Honor

“Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.”
― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within

“From her he had learned two fundamental things about love: first, that unlike what the romantics so pompously argued, love was more a gradual course than a sudden blossoming at first sight, and second, that he was capable of loving.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul