"Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again."
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
"What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?"
"Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intel..."
"I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?"
"Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. ..."
"I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with."
"It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody..."
"True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them."
"You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some se..."
"Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them."