Ruby Manougian

“Mensur böyle dedikten sonra bir bardağı yarıya kadar suyla doldurup içine kaşığın ucuyla iki üç damla rakı damlattı. Peri içkinin suyun içinde külrengi bir mürekkep gibi yayılışını seyretti. Aynı anda babası da onu seyrediyordu sevecen bir ifadeyle.

"Şu damlacıkları görüyor musun? İşte ben ve ruhdaşlarım öyleyiz. Bir cehalet denizinde tutunmaya çalıştık ama dağılıp gidiyoruz.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“God was a maze without a map, a circle without a centre; the pieces of a jigsaw that never seemed to fit together. If only she could solve this mystery, she could bring meaning to senselessness, reason to madness, order to chaos, and perhaps, too, she could learn to be happy.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“(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

“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