G. Willow Wilson quotes

“Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

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“I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

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“Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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“Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

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“you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

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“The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.”
-- G. Willow Wilson

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.”

“Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.”

“Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.”

“God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.”