Kismet Quotes

“She was saying yes to life, taking leaps of faith, and trying to be happy. To be well. She hated it.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“This was their land. The animals’ land. They were here before humans; they’d be here after.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“The ravens just wanted to save their home. Every year more houses crept into the wilderness, more people set up their houses, not realizing someone already lived there.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“property”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“For Lorraine. Ronnie wanted to scream. All of this wasn’t for the community or safety. It was for Marley and her vanity and her need to have followers. Her blood wasn’t healing her friend; it had been used to make her face pretty. Ronnie was used to betrayal. All kinds of betrayal.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Are you going to take responsibility for anything?” Star asked. She was mad—everyone could tell. “People are dead because of you. And you’re upset because you want to keep your little following,”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Never, ever let Caroline give you any drugs. You need to trust me on this. She will end up killing you. You have to stay away from her. She’s evil.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Nothing folks here liked more than a hysterical blonde woman spouting off about invaders. She shook her head and laughed. Hey, if it made them behave, she was all for the videos.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Everyone here wore caftans and crystals, and they looked like Marley: tanned darker than Ronnie, with bleach-blonde hair. Everyone was white. All of them.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“That’s your intuition. You need to trust it. Listen to it. It’ll guide you. Want a tea?”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“It wasn’t something Caroline or Marley would understand, though. Everything was viewed through their white Western lens, and arranged marriages were up there with niqabs and burkas as bad Muslim things.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs mixed in her neighborhood as if the fighting in their home countries didn’t exist.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Like I’m garbage? You’re a disgrace to your parents. I gave up my life for you. I did everything and this is how you treat me?”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Even ten minutes outside would make her tan, and hours would actually make her burn. She wanted neither thing to happen. She could practically hear her aunt’s voice saying, “Good desi girls don’t get tans.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“It involved a lot of hikes and smoothies and something called adaptogens. (Ronnie had no idea what adaptogens actually were.)”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Hiking was not her thing. How did anyone enjoy this? There were bugs everywhere and sharp, pointy plants whose only purpose was to maim careless humans like her.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“And the animals that transgressed on the humans’ land, the animals who used old migration patterns that came from their ancestors, were killed.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“As awesome as it sounds . . . welcome to the cruel world of fashion where women’s looks, weight, and youth are the only things to value.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“Kismet is a gleeful (and at times literal) skewering of influencer culture and clout chasing, as well as a deeply relevant look at how easily and often the white wellness world intersects with racism and cultural appropriation—and how blind we can be to that and to the stain it leaves on the world around us. A bold and insightful whodunnit that ensures you’ll never look at ravens the same way again.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“She was a Fury, righting the wrongs of the world, spurred on by the energy of nature around her.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet

“And the animals that transgressed on the humans’ land, the animals who used old migration patterns that came from their ancestors, were killed. This was their land. The animals’ land. They were here before humans; they’d be here after. Not all of them, but the ones smart enough to adapt, to take what they needed. Like the ravens.”
― Amina Akhtar, Kismet