The Architect's Apprentice
Elif Shafak
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes, for the soul to thrive, the heart needs to be broken, son.”
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“It's odd how faces, solid and visible as they are, evaporate, while words, made of breath, stay.”
“Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.”
“For apprentices everywhere - no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master”
“Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.” “Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger. “By giving us more work, of course.”
“In order to gain mastery, you need to dismantle as much as you put together.' 'Then there'd be no buildings left in the world,' Jahan ventured. 'Everything would be razed to the ground.' 'We are not destroying the buildings, son. We are destroying our desire to possess them. Only God is the owner. Of the stone and of the skill.”
“Of three things in this life she expected no good: a man who had sold his soul to Sheitan; a woman proud of her beauty; and the news that could not wait till the morning to be delivered.”
“In order to gain mastery, you need to dismantle as much as you put together.”
“Only remember that cities, too, are like human beings. They are not made of stones and wood, solely. They are of flesh and bone. They bleed when they are hurt. Every unlawful construction is a nail hammered into the heart of the Instambul. Remember to pity a wounded city the way you pity a wounded person".”
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