Author: Elif Shafak

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• J.M. Coetzee (1)
  • IN: Honour (2012) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: As long as he can remember he has had a sense of himself as prince of the house, and of his mother as his dubious promoter and anxious protector.
    FROM: Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, (1997), Book, South Africa
• Shams of Tabriz (1)
  • IN: The Forty Rules of Love (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When I was a child, I saw God, / I saw angels; / I watched the mysteries of the higher and lower worlds. I thought all men ? the same. At last I realized that they did not see...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Iran
• R. M. Rilke (1)
  • IN: Three Daughters of Eve (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What will you do, God, when I die? When I, your pitcher, broken, lie? When I, your drink, go stale or dry? I am your garb, the trade you ply, You lose your meaning, losing me.
    FROM: The Book of Hours, (1905), Book, Bohemia/Austria
• Rabia (1)
  • IN: Three Daughters of Eve (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Would you come if someone called you by the wrong name? I wept, because for years He did not enter my arms; then one night I was told a secret; perhaps the name you call God is not really His, maybe it is just an alias.
    FROM: NULL, (750), [NA], NULL
• Mihri Hatun (1)
  • IN: The Architect's Apprentice (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: At one glance I loved you with a thousand hearts ... Let the zealots think loving is sinful Never mind, Let me burn in the hellfire of that sin.
    FROM: NULL, (1550), NULL, Ottoman
• Mirabai (1)
  • IN: The Architect's Apprentice (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have searched the world and found nothing worthy of love, hence I am a stranger amid my kinfolk and an exile from their company.
    FROM: NULL, (1550), NULL, India