Nadifa Quotes

#1. When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead.

Patricia Cornwell

#2. As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.

Nadifa Mohamed

#3. You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.

Nadifa Mohamed

#5. In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

Nadifa Mohamed

#6. It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

Niels Bohr

#7. I'll be out with my friends and be recognized, and little girls will ask me for my autograph. It is so much fun living out your dream. It, like, totally reflects me 100%.

Miley Cyrus

#8. It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.

Nadifa Mohamed

#9. But it is their voices that really bother her: why do men speak so loudly? They shout rather than talk and laugh like the world needs to know they are laughing.

Nadifa Mohamed

#10. You are just as annoyingly cocky as you were nine years ago."
"Yes," Kyle's gaze fell to her lips. "And we both know how that turned out.

Julie James

#11. The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers

Nadifa Mohamed