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Aminah Mae Safi QUOTES

1 " A smile tugs at my lips. I know if anyone can best the queen of Jerusalem, it is I. I know if anyone can take the things she cares for, it is I. For I am Rahma al-Hud -- the Green Hood -- and there's a king's -- no, a queen's -- ransom on my own head.
"Let's go steal her kingdom, then. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix

2 " A smile tugs at my lips. I know if anyone can best the queen of Jerusalem, it is I. I know if anyone can take the things she cares for, it is I. For I am Rahma al-Hud - the Green Hood - and there's a king's - no, a queen's - ransom on my own head.
"Let's go steal her kingdom, then. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix

3 " She thought that irritation is sometimes the most honest way of expressing love. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

4 " They will tell us we can be better than queens of the wild great something. They already told us we couldn’t be fairy princesses or white knights or dragon slayers. They will tell us to grow up, be serious. They will tell us to fight for a spot at the table. But now, we don’t. We desecrate their tables. We dance on tables. We take really big swords and hack those tables into tiny little pieces. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

5 " They told her the attack was her fault. She was Iraqi, wasn't she, they had accused. They knew she was Muslim. Her fault, they had kept on, the dirty little terrorist, the conspiring towel head. Lulu had stood for the first time, at a loss for words. Worse than hearing the words from hateful strangers-she had heard the poisonous words from boys she'd grown up with, boys she'd kissed, boys she'd had crushes on, boys she'd tasted her first alcohol with, boys she'd wrestled with for control of the tv remote.

Strangers, at least, she could have ignored.

She should have felt punched in the stomach. But she hadn't. She should have screamed and yelled back at them. But she hadn't. Instead, she had stood there, dazed and stupid, while wondering if all those years she'd thought she belonged there she had been terribly, horribly mistaken. The relatives who died fighting tyranny had choked the words in her throat. Her heart had shattered that day, into thousands of selfish pieces. The one she had now, the one she had to put back together, had slivers missing in the strangest of places. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

6 " You gave me books and articles. You keep telling me not to forget I'm Arab. But it's not just the white people reminding me who I am, Baba. Arabs remind me I'm not one of them too. This world may never let me forget I am Arab, but it will also keep me from belonging as one of them. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

7 " The nice thing about life, and not the movies, is that there's no curtains, no The End. You can always write your own story. You can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense or go in a straight line. It happens. You make it happen. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel

8 " You’ve always been my independent one. You hold in so much. You aren’t who anyone decides you are. You aren’t how anyone treats you. You have to find peace in that. It’s not easy, but you do. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

9 " He was a boy made to be conquered, maybe even saved. But not by Lulu. She was neither a knight or a Nightingale. She was a girl made to be selfish. She would have her own adventures. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

10 " I hope we can all figure out how to live a good story. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel

11 " Don't make me a heroine. Don't make me a villain. You'll be lucky enough to walk your own path. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel

12 " James reminded Lulu of things best forgotten, of the cost of survival and the price of high living. Lulu had paid the price by trading in her tongue. Lo had cut out her heart. Audrey, who had been born into this world, had no ability to see beyond its borders. Emma alone seemed untouched by any kind of deal with the devil. But Lulu didn't believe that to be true. Nobody could go without paying the price. The prize of being accepted into the fold of the one-day rich and powerful was too tempting, too all-encompassing. Emma's bargain must have been the worst of all to stay so neat and invisible. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

13 " It's kind of amazing what you can do when you decided you can't fail. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel

14 " But Rachel wasn't sure Palms had ever had better days. To her, it had always been one of those places where dreams and dreamers had gone to die. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel

15 " Tragedy was in their bones. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel

16 " Would it kill you to just honestly like a thing? "

― Aminah Mae Safi , This Is All Your Fault

17 " Everybody wants to be somebody’s Yoda. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

18 " English, unlike Arabic, was not a poetic language. English had been cobbled together by too many unknown parents, too many unsure users. English lacked the single word that differentiated an attacking lion from one at rest. Nor did English have the capacity to relay the succinct, linguistic separation of a maternal uncle from a paternal one. English was not a thoughtful language. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

19 " All the Arabic I know. Pshhhh. Besides, between the two of us combined we've got the vocabulary of at least a three-year-old', Miriam huffed. 'Between the two of us,' Lulu said, flourishing her hand, 'we are at least one whole terrorist. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For

20 " Queens, Lulu-cat. We've crowned ourselves. We run ragged as we please. The only people who tell us what to do are each other. "

― Aminah Mae Safi , Not the Girls You're Looking For