82 Quotes by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Before Mina, my life was like a complicated jigsaw puzzle. Mina’s come along and pushed the puzzle upside down onto the floor. I have to start all over again, figuring out where the pieces go. But some of the pieces to the puzzle don’t seem to fit the way they used to. The thought terrifies me.

Bad things happen when good people remain silent.

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

I know I’ve got to work twice as hard as everybody else because I’ve got twice the distance to run just to catch up.

I couldn’t stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don’t sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Unrequited love is better than returned love that fails. That way I can dream.

How naive she must be to think that life is so safe and predictable that you can survive without some level of independence and autonomy.

Words. And meaning. You can’t own one and not the other.

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.