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1 " He was a man who had mistaken the eye of the storm for a whirlwind romance. "
― Ayisha Malik , This Green and Pleasant Land
2 " What a luxury anything organic is: to take your time; to have the lived experience. To hear what a person has to say about love and say, ‘Yes! I know that feeling. It shattered my soul and it was beautiful . . . "
― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)
3 " I never realised that the weight of disappointment rests mostly on your heart. "
4 " One of the issues about the whole ‘being alone’ stance is not having anyone to share the world’s problems with. A person’s been scooped out of your life and so you speak into a pit of nothingness. Or you don’t speak at all, depending on your tendency towards soliloquy. "
5 " I’m a marginally intelligent, selectively confident, assertive woman "
6 " He didn’t say anything. Then something felt odd on my head – not inside it, rather more around it. It felt as if my scarf had shrunk. I could see an odd bit dangling from the corner of my eye. I put my hand on my head and then caught a glimpse of my scarf draped over the arm of the sofa: what the hell is it doing there when it’s on my head? There was a three-second window where I was perplexed at the improbability of such a thing. Then I realised; if my scarf was on the sofa, then it definitely wasn’t on my head. "
7 " You should never change is the culmination of all your flaws made necessary: the imperfect sum of an imperfect past, which turned out to be a good thing for someone. "
8 " Fear of rejection isn’t a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming. "
9 " Listen, if a man turns up outside a girl's house he's probably mad about her... or he's passing time until something better comes along... All you need to know is if you're tough enough to live with the worst of the two outcomes. "
10 " Oh, his words! Sometimes they’re like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus. "
11 " I’ve always hated words of comfort. I don’t know if you should trust a person who says ‘It’s going to be OK’ unless they’re going to personally try and fix it. "
12 " I’m not being superficial but he actually looked like sewer rat guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "
13 " If you edge towards a cliff slowly enough, you should be able to catch yourself before you topple over. Saturday "
14 " Listen, if a man turns up outside a girl's house he's probably mad about her... or he's passing time until something better comes along... All you need to know is if you're tough enough to live with the worse of the two outcomes. (pg 274) "
― Ayisha Malik
15 " I don’t consider “prick” a swear word. For most people it’s just a state of being.’ I "
16 " We come here today because we are a free people. We live in a city and country for which our ancestors fought so that we could exercise that freedom... but in the words of Nelson Mandela: "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians! "
17 " You don't know what you're doing. You've never been here before. You wanted something different to what your parents had, but no one gave you a guide. You are undecided, caught between wanting something and knowing you might never have it. You are Generation have-it-all (that's why your parents immigrated, after all) but you just don't know how to have it all. "
18 " I know that, but you can’t tell the person you’re marrying everything.’ She "
19 " Fear of rejection isn’t a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming. WEDDING "
20 " I think there should be a Marriage Jar. Anyone who mentions the word has to put in a pound "
