Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1) QUOTES

1 " 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 " 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. "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

5 " 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. "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

7 " 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. "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

9 " Oh, his words! Sometimes they’re like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus. "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

11 " I’m not being superficial but he actually looked like sewer rat guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

13 " I don’t consider “prick” a swear word. For most people it’s just a state of being.’ I "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

15 " 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. "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

17 " 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 "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)

19 " If HITW Imran marries someone and moves out I will be very annoyed. 6.52 "

― Ayisha Malik , Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)