{"author":"Elif Shafak","author_id":"Elif+Shafak","total_quotes":64,"quotes":[{"text":"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["patience","virtue"],"id":8275,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["feelings","love","romance","the-bastard-of-istanbul","turkish-literature"],"id":22239,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["humanity","loneliness","philosophy-of-life"],"id":28005,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"Some among the Armenians in the diaspora would never want the Turks to recognize the genocide. If they do so, they'll pull the rug out from under our feet and take the strongest bond that unites us. Just like the Turks have been in the habit of denying their wrongdoing, the Armenians have been in the habit of savoring the cocoon of victim hood. Apparently, there are some old habits that need to be changes on both sides.' Baron Baghdassarian.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["history","truth"],"id":29246,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["fiction","politics"],"id":33001,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"Believers are each other's mirrors.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["believer","islam","mirrors","quran"],"id":37330,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["experience","imagination","life","philosophy","truth","writing"],"id":39196,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"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.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["inspirational-living"],"id":47956,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"I know every single street in this town. And I love strolling these streets in the mornings, in the evenings, and then at night when I am merry and tipsy. I love to have breakfasts with my friends along the Bosphorus on Sundays, I love to walk alone amid the crowds. I am in love with the chaotic beauty of this city, the ferries, the music, the tales, the sadness, the colors, and the black humor.....","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["attachment","emotions","life"],"id":49075,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["censorship","speak","voice"],"id":49319,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}