The one-eyed is always beauty in the land of the blind.
Randa Abdel-FattahWe have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.
Randa Abdel-FattahEverything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.
Randa Abdel-FattahThat’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.
Randa Abdel-FattahAnd it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters.
Randa Abdel-Fattahthere is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.
Randa Abdel-FattahParents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.
Randa Abdel-FattahI just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?
Randa Abdel-FattahYour perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances."
Now what am I supposed to say to that?
"What do you have to say for yourself?"
Friggin' mind reader.
Tag: funny teacher mind-reader note-passing
Are you still doing that crap?" I ask.
"You can't even do it properly," Eileen says.
"Just a matter of practice," Simone says.
"Wow! Practicing how to poison yourself and make your breath reek like the fart of a seagull!" Eileen cries.
Tag: practice smoking gross farts seagulls
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