Quotes by Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“The drugs took over and she fell asleep then.Only her face was visible, the medical equipment acting as some hideous hijab for her.”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“The evening that Al and I met became the night that we met. By the time we fell asleep at daybreak we were different people”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.And forgot every rule I had ever known.”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“I wanted my eternity in carbon molecules, in being part of the trees, the sky, air itself”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been,”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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“Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.”

— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour

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