"Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The ..."
- G. Willow Wilson
"The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose no side. It gave the g..."
"So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother."
"Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction"
"What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes who make sacrifices to some pagan god. People want the..."
"The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it."
"How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain." "Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily. "My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor ther..."
"The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down."
"It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL"
"Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself."