The Jewel of Medina Quotes

“...but I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person...”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Trying to forge my own destiny had nearly destroyed me, but his love held the power to heal.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Hasta que aprendiera a controlarme a mí misma, no sería capaz de controlar mi destino”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Tenía en mis manos la posibilidad de vivir la vida que yo deseaba; no luchando ni huyendo, sino recurriendo a mi ingenio.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Each day was an unfinished thought. Night was a secret bursting to be told.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I’d rather be a lone lioness, roaring and free, than a caged bird without even a name to call my own.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“For me, life before him was a blot on the page, as inscrutable as the existence of my soul before birth.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Glory is as easy to grasp as a dagger. It draws attention to its bearer like a blade flashing in the sun. Honor, on the other hand, requires discipline and compassion and self-respect. It often works silently, without recognition or the desire for it. Honor comes only after years of effort and, once grasped, is even more difficult to hold.

~Abu Bakr”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I don’t need poetry to know about love. My love for you has taught me plenty about heartache.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Make certain you control your destiny, or it will control you.

~Umm Ruman”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I might shape my destiny—but I couldn’t run from it. This much I had learned from my mistakes.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I might shape my destiny—but I couldn’t run from it. This much I had learned from my mistakes

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“We cup the truth in our hands like water, trying to contain it, watching it slip away. Truth is too slippery to hold. It must be passed on, or it slides like rain into the earth, to disappear.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“That none of us is ever alive until we can shape our own destinies. Until we can choose.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“We cannot escape our destinies, even in death. But we can claim them, and give them shape.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“We cannot escape our destinies, even in death. But we can claim them, and give them shape.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina