51 Quotes by Ahdaf Soueif

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake – or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

She wanted nothing to come between her and the rain and the sky.

There’s a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear – would have worn – if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance.

I hardly trust myself to write about him. I do not know what I should write about him.

Wonder ’do we – by the same words – mean the same things?

It’s good that I should have to come some way to meet you.