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What a luxury anything organic is: to take your time; to have the lived experience. To hear what a person has to say about love and say, βYes! I know that feeling. It shattered my soul and it was beautiful .β.β.
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Iβm a marginally intelligent, selectively confident, assertive woman
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I never realised that the weight of disappointment rests mostly on your heart.
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You should never change is the culmination of all your flaws made necessary: the imperfect sum of an imperfect past, which turned out to be a good thing for someone.
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One of the issues about the whole βbeing aloneβ stance is not having anyone to share the worldβs problems with. A personβs been scooped out of your life and so you speak into a pit of nothingness. Or you donβt speak at all, depending on your tendency towards soliloquy.
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O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.
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Fear of rejection isnβt a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming.
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Oh, his words! Sometimes theyβre like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus.
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Iβm not being superficial but he actually looked like sewer rat guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Iβve always hated words of comfort. I donβt know if you should trust a person who says βItβs going to be OKβ unless theyβre going to personally try and fix it.
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He was a man who had mistaken the eye of the storm for a whirlwind romance.
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Ayisha Malik (This Green and Pleasant Land)
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Listen, if a man turns up outside a girl's house he's probably mad about her... or he's passing time until something better comes along... All you need to know is if you're tough enough to live with the worst of the two outcomes.
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Ayisha Malik (Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1))
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He didnβt say anything. Then something felt odd on my head β not inside it, rather more around it. It felt as if my scarf had shrunk. I could see an odd bit dangling from the corner of my eye. I put my hand on my head and then caught a glimpse of my scarf draped over the arm of the sofa: what the hell is it doing there when itβs on my head? There was a three-second window where I was perplexed at the improbability of such a thing. Then I realised; if my scarf was on the sofa, then it definitely wasnβt on my head.
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Ayisha Malik (Sofia Khan is Not Obliged)
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Some people stay the same their whole life; consistent. And then some people just evolve a little later. I went from this weird, geeky kid to, I donβt know. This.β He opened up his arms. βAnd now that Iβm here I think we both realised we didnβt work any more.β He looked at the ground. βShe said she loved that geeky kid.
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Ayisha Malik (The Other Half of Happiness (Sofia Khan, #2))
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In Ayishaβs debut novel Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, and its sequel The Other Half of Happiness, she not only explored what it was like to date as a Muslim woman, but captured the humour, heartbreak and necessary self-awareness involved in anyoneβs search for love.
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building a strong romantic relationship required self-sufficiency and self-understanding: two things I had lost in earlier relationships. Before I could find them, as Ayisha explained, I had to figure out what I was looking for outside of myself that I had not found within, then understand who I was in the present in relation to my past.
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Mrs Norris had spoiled the girls, so he had been strict with them to balance it out. So strict that they never showed their true colours to him and he never had the chance to correct their thinking. All the expensive education in the world didnβt teach them how to be humble and understand what was morally right.
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Ayisha Malik (Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (Awesomely Austen))
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Imagine if Henry weren't serious and I ended up liking him just because I thought he like me? A woman shouldn't be expected to love a man just because he loves her.
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Ayisha Malik (Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (Awesomely Austen))
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Listen, if a man turns up outside a girl's house he's probably mad about her... or he's passing time until something better comes along... All you need to know is if you're tough enough to live with the worse of the two outcomes. (pg 274)
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We come here today because we are a free people. We live in a city and country for which our ancestors fought so that we could exercise that freedom... but in the words of Nelson Mandela: "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians!
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Ayisha Malik (Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1))
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Well, I had to choose between God and a bunch of sales execs. I carried on praying, of course.β He
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If HITW Imran marries someone and moves out I will be very annoyed. 6.52
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I know that, but you canβt tell the person youβre marrying everything.β She
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Fear of rejection isnβt a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming. WEDDING
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If you edge towards a cliff slowly enough, you should be able to catch yourself before you topple over. Saturday
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I donβt consider βprickβ a swear word. For most people itβs just a state of being.β I
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These protestations of love from men in authority do not translate into wanting to make the world a better and safer place for all women. They fail to realise that their power and wealth provide limited protection for their female relations who still have to navigate and live in a world that is to a great extent dismissive and disrespectful of women.
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Ayisha Osori (Love Does Not Win Elections)
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Why this obsession with the First Lady?
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Ayisha Osori (Love Does Not Win Elections)
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Using family ties and blood relationships as a basis for granting access to power and privilege has been vital to the militaryβs hold over Nigeria. In his book My Watch, President Obasanjo admitted to using this tactic when he arranged for the children of politicians in the First Republic to work with him in 1999. This has become an effective way to keep the elite quiet and complicit in the continued exploitation of Nigeria.
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Late night meetings are one of the most often-cited challenges to womenβs political participation in Nigeria.
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There were two kinds of delegates: automatic and ad hoc. The automatic ones were PDP royalty.
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One was the chairman of the PDP Chapter. I first thought his name was Wai Wai Suleiman, until I realised that Y.Y. were his initials.
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Ayisha Osori (Love Does Not Win Elections)
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Do not assess your chances based on how much people claim your opponents are disliked or reviled: Love is not a currency at the ballot.
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Ayisha Osori (Love Does Not Win Elections)
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You don't know what you're doing. You've never been here before. You wanted something different to what your parents had, but no one gave you a guide. You are undecided, caught between wanting something and knowing you might never have it. You are Generation have-it-all (that's why your parents immigrated, after all) but you just don't know how to have it all.
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I think there should be a Marriage Jar. Anyone who mentions the word has to put in a pound
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