“I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm used to it ... I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -”
Leila Aboulela is a British novelist and essayist born in 1964. Her works often explore themes of immigration, identity, and religious faith, deeply influenced by East African and Islamic cultures. more
“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”
“Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.”
“Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.”
“When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.”
“The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.”
“Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.”