The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

The faithfulness of the heavenly father is forever sure.

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.

The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.

I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.