I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.