“We are faith. We speak all languages of beauty and hardship.” — G. Willow Wilson Beauty Copy Share Image
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson Conscience Copy Share Image
“The strange high that comes from arriving changed in a familiar landscape.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.” — G. Willow Wilson 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 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
“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.” — G. Willow Wilson Good sense 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 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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“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 Misogyny 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 Difficult time 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 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 Allah 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. — G. Willow Wilson Character Copy Share Image