31 quotes found
“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
“Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.”
“But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?”
“One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.”
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
“More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”
“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”
“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”
“We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war. Jihad!...”
“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we goin...”
“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”
“And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and did they leave their front doors open, did they leave their kids with the neighbors, pay social c...”
“But dying is no easy trick. And suicide can't be put on a list of Things To Do in between cleaning the grill pan and leveling the sofa leg with a brick. It is the decision not to do, to un-do; a ki...”
“By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its ...”
“[..] as midnight inevitably came and went without the horsemen of the apocalypse making an appearance, Clara surprised herself by falling into a melancholy.For ridding oneself of faith is like boil...”
“I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE IN EAST LONDON BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NORTH. I AM A MUSLIM BUT ALLAH HAS FORSAKEN ME OR I HAVE...”
“Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.”
“It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the raffle tickets (because the pretty red-haired music teacher asks you to) and win a bottle of whisk...”
