G. Willow Wilson

Quotes

• “I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to pro...”
• “For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi do...”
• “An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habi...”
• “Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.""How terrible," said Farukhuaz....”
• “You always have a choice. You can't stop what's coming, but you can decide how you meet it. The fate of the world is out...”
• “How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain." "Your mother is dense," Alif said wearil...”
• “The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the t...”
• “Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and piec...”
• “He's holding my hand! A boy is holding my hand! This is happening! I should let go. I should blush and act shy. Like a g...”
• “The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity f...”
• “So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One co...”
• “All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them wi...”
• “Be careful with this one" said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. "All cats are half jinn, but I think she's three qua...”
• “Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.”
• “Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction”
• “The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.”
• “I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.”
• “Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.”