Ferhat Akgün’s Reviews > The Forty Rules of Love > Status Update

This world is like a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you. Therfore, if there is someone who harbors ill thoughts about you, saying similarly bad things about him will only make matters worse...

"In many ways the twenty-first century is not that different from the thirteenth century. Both will be recorded in history as times of unprecedented religious clashes, cultural misunderstandings, and a general sense of insecurity and fear of the Other. At times like these, the need for love is greater than ever. " - Elif Shafak