Ruby Manougian

“Azur smiled as if he were expecting these answers and said, 'The Malady of Certainty.'

Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With certainty came arrogance; with arrogance, blindness; with blindness, darkness; and with darkness, more certainty. This he called, the converse nature of convictions.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“Farklı disiplinleri sentezleyin. Merak ediyorsanız Tanrı'yı, ne olur yalnızca dine odaklanmayın artık. Dinsel kavgalar ve çekişmeler insanlığı böler, zihinlerinizi mühürler. Matematiğe, fiziğe, müziğe, resme, şiire, dansa başvurun. Sanat özünde bir arayıştır. Tanrı ilmi de arayıştır. Demek ki, Tanrı'ya inansanız da, inanmasanız da konuya yaratıcılıkla yaklaşabilirsiniz.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”
― George K. Simon Jr., In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People

“(The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’ must be ironic because people hate themselves.)”
― Adam Phillips, On Kindness