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The Architect's Apprentice QUOTES

The Architect's Apprentice QUOTES

1 " When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

2 " 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. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

3 " If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

4 " 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. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

5 " Pour lui, il y avait deux bénédictions dans la vie : les livres et les amis, qu'il fallait posséder en proportions inverses. Des livres en grand nombre mais seulement une poignée d'amis. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

6 " أحياناً، لابدّ من أن ينفطر قلبك يا بني حتّي تزهر روحك "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

7 " Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

8 " Sometimes, for the soul to thrive, the heart needs to be broken, son. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

9 " It's odd how faces, solid and visible as they are, evaporate, while words, made of breath, stay. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

10 " For apprentices everywhere - no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

11 " ليس ثمة لعنة أسوأ من أن تدفن كل أحبّائك و تبقى أنت علي قيد الحياة "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

12 " 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. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

13 " 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. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

14 " عندما تفعل شيئا من أعماق روحك، فإنك تشعر بنهر يجري في داخلك بفرحة "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

15 " إذا أردت أن تتقن حرفتك، فينبغي لك أن تقنع الكون بأنّك أنت المطلوب و ليس غيرك "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

16 " In order to gain mastery, you need to dismantle as much as you put together. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

17 " عندما تتمكن من لغة ما، فذلك يعني أنك أُعطيت مفتاحا لقلعة أما ما ستجده داخل المكان فيعتمد عليك "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

18 " I cannot prevent people from destroying. All I can do is keep building. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

19 " 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". "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice

20 " Busbecq believed there were two blessings in life: books and friends. And that they should be possessed in inverse quantities: many books, but only a handful of friends. "

― Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice