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Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1) QUOTES

Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1) QUOTES

1 " it's always worth the fight. Even if you lose, it's worth it. Even when you know you're going to lose, it's worth it. One of my favorite lawyers said that true courage is when you know you're beaten before you even begin, but you begin anyway and see it through to the end. You don't often win, but sometimes you do. "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

2 " I—I want forgiveness, for others and for myself. I want to accept that the journey is all there is. That when you get there, there’s no there there and so you keep going, keep trying, keep looking for ways to fill that hole but it will never be filled because we are just human and life has a hole – it just does. That’s what I want. "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

3 " Oh, Jodie.” Zara shook her head. “Do you think I was this way at sixteen? Do you think Mia was like that at your age? Women aren’t born warriors; we learn to fight because we have to. "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

4 " accused Zara of being servile "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

5 " She planned to change her life. She planned to change the world. She planned to be extraordinary.
Now, she didn’t plan so much. "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

6 " She greeted Detective Constable Mia Scavo, gripping her hand a touch too firmly. In the back of her mind, she tried to remember the writer who said the sight of women greeting each other reminded him of nothing so much as prize fighters shaking hands. "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

7 " Am I supposed to put my religion ahead of the fact that I’m a woman? Do I owe more loyalty to Islam than a girl who has been victimised? "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

8 " Can’t you see, Mum? Oppression doesn’t spread through men with guns, or bombs on trains. Oppression spreads when women like you tell their daughters to marry a certain man, or wear a certain dress, or work a certain job. It happens when women like you tell us – gently and with all the love in the world – not to peek above the parapet, instead to stay at home, to be quiet, to be kind, to be good. "

― Kia Abdullah , Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)