“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 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“If you want to leave your country, leave before you're thirty.” — G. Willow Wilson Patriotism 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
“There's always that one group of people who think they have special permission to terrorize anybody who disagrees with them. And then… — G. Willow Wilson Bullies Copy Share Image
“Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.” — G. Willow Wilson Truth 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
“Wonder and awe have gone out of your religions. You are prepared to accept the irrational, but not the transcendent.” — G. Willow Wilson Religion 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 Hacking Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking?” she asked. “I’m thinking that you are all good things in one place,” he said.” — G. Willow Wilson Good thing Copy Share Image
“You are young, so you may not understand what it feels like to be offered a second chance at my age, especially… — G. Willow Wilson Second chance Copy Share Image
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. — G. Willow Wilson Character Copy Share Image
“If man's capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and… — G. Willow Wilson 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
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson Communicate 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
“We are faith. We speak all languages of beauty and hardship.” — G. Willow Wilson Beauty 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
