Sundara (StoriesfromMyShelf)

“Grief is a swallow,” he said. “One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“To immigrants and exiles everywhere,
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“We must do what we can to mend our lives, we owe that to ourselves – but we need to be careful not to break others while achieving that.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World