Quote

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Randa Abdel-Fattah
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 1
Lawyer
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Sydney
NSW
People
Become
Arrogant
Change
Righteous
Give
Ashamed
Self
Suddenly
Giving
Spent
Years
Taking
Remorseful
Life
Movies
Magically
Like
Doesn
Overnight

More quotes by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Image
It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
Belief means nothing without actions
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
And 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-Fattah
Image
When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite kids go to the other extreme.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
That’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-Fattah
Image
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
We have to choices in this world we either try to survive or to give up.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Image
I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
Randa Abdel-Fattah