20 Quotes by Syed M. Masood

I am saying that you should read everyone else's story with the same respect as you do your own.

For Abu too,” I said. “The more guns, the better. We are Americans now.

Tell me, Daynal Jilani, how exactly are you more than just a pretty face?" I gave her an adorable, irresistible grin. "I'm an absolutely gorgeous face.

Someone in a mosque once told me about the water behind people’s faces. This water, he said, changed depending on what you did and what you believed, and as you got older it began to freeze. The kind of life you led, whether your heart was full of love or joy or shrewdness or bile, all of this changed the nature of the water and, therefore, the look of your face. In this way, your face told the story of your life.

That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien.

There was no culture shock—though I may have gawked a little at the first short skirt I saw…and maybe the second one too—because even though I’d never stepped foot on U.S. soil, I knew this place. I’d seen it on screens my entire life.

I suppose we have to change the national anthem then.”“You want to take out ‘the land of the brave’?”“No,” he protested. “The whole thing has to be replaced.”“With what?”“With Britney. Remember ‘Oops!…I Did It Again’?

There is no us, Abu Fahd. There is no them. We're all the same.

Maybe. But you are different. You don’t fight others. You fight the Great Jihad. The Prophet said that the fight inside a man, the fight for his soul, is the greatest struggle of all, yes? The fight between the white brown man and the brown white man. The fight between the good bad man and the bad good man. I see it in you all the time.