“Be yourself.
You're
better than a bully
any day.”
Source: Bully on the Bus
“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“Faith isn't for the faint of heart.
Both courage and naïveté are required.
To grasp its art,
you must look the other way
when all the omens seem to say
you will nog get what you desire,
so, though it may be a cliché
I put my faith in fire.”
Source: Voices
“That you were
already inside me and two lives
cost the body its soul. That I couldn’t afford
to let you go.”
Source: Between His Teeth, Clenched
“Our Prophet ﷺ showed KINDNESS while he was treated with hostility,
He showed LOVE and COMPASSION to everyone, even to his enemy.
Sent by the MOST MERCIFUL to the world as a MERCY,
He is the BEST of creation, the most noble man,
Described by his wife as a WALKING QUR’AN.
Follow his SUNNAH as best as you can...”
Source: Getting to Know Muhammad: a Rhyming Verse Novel, About the Life and Struggles of the Prophet Muhammad, for Teenagers and Young Adults.
“The wind didn’t remember his name. It didn’t need to. It remembered his breathing.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“Allah is CLOSER to you than your jugular vein,
He knows your DEEPEST thoughts; he feels your pain.
Any problems, RAISE your hands to Allah and complain,
The most compassionate, the one who LOVES you greatly.
Allah is more MERCIFUL than a mother is to her baby,
HOLD on to the QUR’AN and the SUNNAH tightly.
A guiding LIGHT, shining brightly...”
Source: Getting to Know Muhammad: a Rhyming Verse Novel, About the Life and Struggles of the Prophet Muhammad, for Teenagers and Young Adults.
“The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said.”
Source: Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science
“Mom and Dad called me Moonlight, the brightest thing in their sky on their darkest nights. It always sounded so pretty, but the real me is more rough around the edges.”
Source: Still the Stars