Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson Conscience Copy Share Image
“We are faith. We speak all languages of beauty and hardship.” — G. Willow Wilson Beauty Copy Share Image
“Wonder and awe have gone out of your religions. You are prepared to accept the irrational, but not the transcendent.” — G. Willow Wilson Irrational Copy Share Image
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I don't want foreigners involved in my business. Jinn are one thing but I draw the line at Americans.” — G. Willow Wilson Business Copy Share Image
“But you can’t go through a pilgrimage and not come out changed.” — G. Willow Wilson Change Copy Share Image
“is not just any bint,” he said. “This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana . . .” — G. Willow Wilson Philosopher Copy Share Image
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.” — G. Willow Wilson Culture Copy Share Image
“It’s why men are meant to have beards—growing all that hair leaves no energy for moodiness. Much more dignified.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“But there is a girl mixed up in all of this, I have no doubt. In a lovely silk veil, whose modesty… — G. Willow Wilson Eye makeup Copy Share Image
“I was momentarily overwhelmed by the magnitude of the break I had made with my own history. The world was too big,… — G. Willow Wilson Contradictions Copy Share Image
“Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country “an eternal pregnancy”; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define.” — G. Willow Wilson Foreign country Copy Share Image
“Be careful with this one" said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. "All cats are half jinn, but I think she's… — G. Willow Wilson Cats Copy Share Image
“A girl he loved had decided she did not love him--at least, not enough. How was such a problem usually addressed? Surely… — G. Willow Wilson Books Copy Share Image
“My dear sir,” said the sheikh. “God likes catching His servants unprepared. The boy has set down what is obviously the first… — G. Willow Wilson God Copy Share Image
“I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to… — G. Willow Wilson Intellectuals Copy Share Image
“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that." "How terrible," said Farukhuaz. "Do you think so?… — G. Willow Wilson Character Copy Share Image
“I know it's common for old people to complain about the modern moment, and lament the passing of a golden age when… — G. Willow Wilson Children Copy Share Image
I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I believe he is attempting to pray,” said Sheikh Bilal. “But he isn’t clean. He hasn’t performed the ablution or checked the… — G. Willow Wilson Allah Copy Share Image
“We are living in a post-fictional era. Fictional governments are accepted without comment, and we can sit in a mosque and have… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Superstition is thriving. Pedantry is thriving. Sectarianism is thriving. Belief is dying out. To most of your people the jinn are paranoid… — G. Willow Wilson Books Copy Share Image
“Cultural habits are by and large irrational, emerge irrationally, and are practiced irrationally. They are independent of the intellect, and trying to… — G. Willow Wilson Culture Copy Share Image
“The Hand roused. It lumbered to its feet, reeking of ionized air and dry metallic bones, revealing a level of functionality Alif… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“It’s a strange feeling, praying into your hands, filling the air between them with words. We think of divinity as something infinitely… — G. Willow Wilson Divinity Copy Share Image
“The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I… — G. Willow Wilson Faith Copy Share Image
“You’re not a failure, Uncle,” he said, the words awkward and insufficient in his mouth. “It’s only that we don’t feel safe.… — G. Willow Wilson Failure Copy Share Image
“Look at all the Eastern writers who've written great Western literature. Kazuo Ishiguro. You'd never guess that The Remains of the Day… — G. Willow Wilson Books Copy Share Image
“So why is it so hard to be kind? Why does being nice feel so embarrassing? Why can't we just say "Hey,… — G. Willow Wilson Compassion Copy Share Image
“Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul… — G. Willow Wilson Islam Copy Share Image
“The convert will understand. How do they translate ºyw in your English interpretation?” “Atom,” said the convert. “You don’t find that strange,… — G. Willow Wilson Human mind Copy Share Image
“When have I ever suggested you burn them? I am allowed to have opinions, aren’t I? And I don’t hate them—I don’t… — G. Willow Wilson Books Copy Share Image
“There was always something yet unseen. The ground itself was daily renewed, kicked up and muddled by passing travelers, such that it… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
