“I'm not interested in your back alley pseudohikma. I need straight answers.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“There are few things more overwhelming than love in hostile territory.” — G. Willow Wilson 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
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“is not just any bint,” he said. “This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana . . .” — G. Willow Wilson Philosopher Copy Share Image
“But you can’t go through a pilgrimage and not come out changed.” — G. Willow Wilson Change Copy Share Image
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson 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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
“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 Imagination 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
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 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
“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
“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
“Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.” — G. Willow Wilson Culture 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 Business Copy Share Image
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. — G. Willow Wilson 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 Irrational 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
“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
“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
“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 Contradictions 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
