"I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic."

“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”

“It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.”

“Sometimes your best isn't good enough”

Source : Kersten Hamilton (2010). “Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.”

Source : "George III" by John Brooke, Panther, (pp. 363-364), 1974.

“For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.”

“There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing to me, and still is. And the other way is to go out. I knew there would be problems from my family, and also from my environment. But I thought that physical pain would be better than the mental pain. And I started working as an artist.”

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”

“When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.”