“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
“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 Faith Copy Share Image
“To live beyond the threshold of identity, to do so in the name of a peace that has not yet occurred but… — G. Willow Wilson Peace Copy Share Image
“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something” — G. Willow Wilson Language 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
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 Bones Copy Share Image
“But you can’t go through a pilgrimage and not come out changed.” — G. Willow Wilson Change 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
“Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.” — G. Willow Wilson Culture Copy Share Image
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson Conscience 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
“There are few things more overwhelming than love in hostile territory.” — G. Willow Wilson Love Copy Share Image
“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.” — G. Willow Wilson 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 Fictional character Copy Share Image
“Misogyny is an almost inevitable byproduct of political oppression, after all, as brutalized men turn around and brutalize the next most vulnerable… — G. Willow Wilson Politics 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
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. — G. Willow Wilson Cairo 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 Beauty 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 strange high that comes from arriving changed in a familiar landscape.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
