“My dear sir,” said the sheikh. “God likes catching His servants unprepared. The boy has set down what is obviously the first plate of food he has seen in a long while in order to thank his Creator. There are… — 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 direction of Mecca, or begun in the correct position.” “My dear sir,” said the sheikh. “God likes catching… — 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
“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
“They are yours, but you don’t understand them,” snapped Reza. “Only Adam was given true intellect, and only the banu adam have the power… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in your back alley pseudohikma. I need straight answers.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
