Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Belief means nothing without actions

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 ?

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

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.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known some weird girls, then, " I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

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 ?