“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
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. — G. Willow Wilson Contemplating Copy Share Image
“is not just any bint,” he said. “This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana . . .” — G. Willow Wilson Philosopher 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 Beards 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 Generation Copy Share Image
“Why are kids like me always being drafted into wars we didn't start?” — G. Willow Wilson Drafted 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 Abandoned Copy Share Image
“It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS… — G. Willow Wilson Belief 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
“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
“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 History 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
“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
“How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain." "Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily.… — G. Willow Wilson Dense Copy Share Image
“They will wake up one morning and realize their civilization has been pulled out from under them, inch by inch, dollar by… — G. Willow Wilson Civilization Copy Share Image
“You always have a choice. You can't stop what's coming, but you can decide how you meet it. The fate of the… — G. Willow Wilson Choice 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 God 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
“In his mind he made himself get down off the ledge and go outside to help Dina with her bags, then to… — G. Willow Wilson Mind 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
“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
“They are yours, but you don’t understand them,” snapped Reza. “Only Adam was given true intellect, and only the banu adam have… — G. Willow Wilson Secret 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 Alif Thought 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… — G. Willow Wilson Democracy Copy Share Image
“If you want to leave your country, leave before you're thirty.” — G. Willow Wilson Patriotism Copy Share Image
“The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.” — G. Willow Wilson Fall Copy Share Image
“It will be a long while until I shall call myself well. I think perhaps too long—longer than I have left to… — G. Willow Wilson Too long Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by… — G. Willow Wilson Metaphor 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… — G. Willow Wilson Belief 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 Concern Copy Share Image
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
“But you can’t go through a pilgrimage and not come out changed.” — G. Willow Wilson Change Copy Share Image
“Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.” — G. Willow Wilson Defended Copy Share Image
