Top 35 S.K. Ali Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “This is a love story. You’ve been warned.”

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2. “Special days start when you run toward them.”

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3. “I’m not a violent person. I’m not advocating violence. But I am an angry person. I’m advocating for more people to get angry. Get moved.”

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4. “Maybe that’s what living is – recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.”

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5. “Human rights. For everyone. Because that was the only way the world made sense. When the arc of care went far and wide, it journeyed and battled to exclude none.”

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6. “Your resistance to my existence is futile.”

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7. “There was a reason love was a round sounding word. It completed you and then some, like treading a circular path, the way it was immemorial. Whole. But also... infinite. It went on and on as long as you went on and on, to meet it, keep it, treasure it. And I would.”

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8. “The shame should have been all his but I chose to carry it around this whole time.”

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9. “Make sure that you make the beginning of whatever you begin beautiful.”

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10. “Never, ever quake in the face of hate, Zayneb.”

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11. “Girls like me who see and feel the pains and problems of the world don’t make sense to people. So maybe we’re meant to be alone, or only with people exactly like us.”

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12. “They say friends are the family you choose.”

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13. “She believed in such a world, where everyone got a turn, a season in the sun.”

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14. “Sometimes people who appear great can be the real deal. The husk, the fruit, and the kernel align.”

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15. “I was in this weird space of wanting not to be alone and wanting not to be crowded, either.”

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16. “Exhibit A TO Z: The root of everything that has gone wrong in my life. Like falling for people without thinking things through.”

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17. “God said: ‘Every deed a person does will receive ten to seven hundred times reward, except fasting, for it is for Me, and I shall reward it. There are two occasions of joy for one who fasts: one when he breaks the fast, and the other when he will meet his Lord.”

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18. “Here’s one thing I CAN figure out and that’s how much I don’t know. How I don’t know what you went through at school. With your teacher. I don’t know about the extent of the Islamophobia you’ve faced. I don’t know what it feel like to be you. But here’s another thing: I DO want to know.”

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19. “Life goes on, even if love doesn’t.”

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20. “The clearest feeling I remember is this: the way that it felt like the space between us folded and folded, and kept folding until the distance shrank, until we made sense to each other.”

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21. “Me not caring, nobody caring that I was crying. Nobody caring that I wasn’t going to be okay.”

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22. “I’m someone who gets consumed by stuff. It engulfs me, wraps me up in its embrace, and doesn’t let me be until I’ve deal with it.”

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23. “Imagine if I transformed this room into the place where someone would want to escape to?”

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24. “And now here we were, almost a thousand years later, still doing it. Trying to make sense of what was happening around us. Maybe that’s what life is, really.”

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25. “We’re allowed to cry.”

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26. “They say friends are the family you choose. And, yeah, I guess that’s sort of true, if family is made up of people you put up with because they care about you and you them.”

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27. “Because the moment you’re feeling secure, someone hates on you.”

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28. “She couldn’t have been the right one for me.”

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29. “One of the reasons Ayaan said she loves being Muslim is because it makes her feel like a natural feminist. “Like hello? Our queen Khadija didn’t wait for the man she had her eye on to ask her, to get on his knees. Nope. Instead, she said, ‘I like you, oh employee of mine. Will you marry me?’ And then, after they hitched, she just kept her job as his boss. Mad respect.”

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30. “There are diverse ways of reading texts, depending on who you are. We all access books differently.”

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31. “The same three non-Muslims show up to our open house every year. They get serenaded as though they’re royalty because we get to post “Mosque Opens Door to Greater Community, and THEY CAME!”

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32. “You need to have a way to take care of yourself. A way to recharge. Otherwise the world will get you down so fast, you won’t be able to hold your head up. I learned this the hard way.”

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33. “This way of noticing that even during the suckiest moments in life there was something marvelous to be seen, heard, touched. Or just a tiny awe felt in the heart.”

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34. “Even though we were going to be continents apart in two days, we knew we weren’t going to be apart.”

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35. “Why we do an action is what determines its quality. A quality action or not.”

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36. “Life doesn’t end. It can start again.”

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37. “I just wanted the right mix of being with someone I connected to, who cared, but also let me be.”

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38. “Because when we do things without a why, we become husks. Easily crumpled, no fruit inside.”

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39. “Throughout our lives, pain visits us in turns. There isn’t a human alive that hasn’t been touched by pain. We all carry scars and wounds, but only some rise to the surface to be seen and commented on. Simply put, the story of pain is common to us all.”

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