Reality-expectation Quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

“I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

“The one-eyed is always beauty in the land of the blind.”

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,' Simon begins…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

And it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God,…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah