Willow Trees Don't Weep Quotes

“You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.”
― Fadia Faqir, Willow Trees Don't Weep

“Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall.”
― Fadia Faqir, Willow Trees Don't Weep

“What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.”
― Fadia Faqir, Willow Trees Don't Weep

“I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.”
― Fadia Faqir, Willow Trees Don't Weep

“How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?”
― Fadia Faqir, Willow Trees Don't Weep