Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour Quotes
9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.
Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.
The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been,
Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,
There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.
I wanted my eternity in carbon molecules, in being part of the trees, the sky, air itself
I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.And forgot every rule I had ever known.
The evening that Al and I met became the night that we met. By the time we fell asleep at daybreak we were different people
The drugs took over and she fell asleep then.Only her face was visible, the medical equipment acting as some hideous hijab for her.
It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself.
As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,
Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe?
Do you have a girlfriend?''No, ' I said quickly.Deny Honour again. Peter only denied Jesus three times. I must have denied Honour like three thousand times.
My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.
Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.
I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.
The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.
They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?
