"I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared"

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Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

Leila Aboulela

#Be Good Quotes #Wanted Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.”
“All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.”
“Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.”
“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”
“Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.”
“Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.”
“People always say be true to yourself. But thatâ€™s misleading, because there are two selves. Thereâ€™s your short term self, and thereâ€™s your long term self. And if youâ€™re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”

Source : Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan
“At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.”

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