6 Quotes by Fadia Faqir

I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.

You don’t liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall.

How did I find myself here? Me – the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?