“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like… — G. Willow Wilson 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 Copy Share Image
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“to do the right thing you must sometimes defend people who don't understand you, or who fear you, or who are angry… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I didn’t believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. My faith did… — 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 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 give a… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“At some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty. I did not believe in Islam; I opened my eyes every morning and saw… — G. Willow Wilson 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 felt better… — 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 does not… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“In his mind he made himself get down off the ledge and go outside to help Dina with her bags, then to see if… — 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 big, but… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain." "Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily. "My mother… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image