When Ali Met Honour Quotes

#1. I would find tiny flowers left by somebody else, and I would know Honour had been to London. I only felt a bit sad she hadn't let me know and met up with me.

She didn't mention anything when I went to Kent at the weekends either.

It was what it was.

Ruth Ahmed

#2. Do you have a girlfriend?'
'No,' I said quickly.

Deny Honour again. Peter only denied Jesus three times. I must have denied Honour like three thousand times.

Ruth Ahmed

#3. Nuclear war would really set back cable.

Ted Turner

#4. He who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

Mary Astell

#5. Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.

Ruth Ahmed

#6. Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,

Ruth Ahmed

#7. Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

Bruce Johnston

#8. Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. I couldn't help but think of Al's pre-ordained betrothal to Billo and of how hard the match-makers had worked to find the girl beautiful enough to match this extraordinary man - this extraordinary man of mine.

Ruth Ahmed

#10. I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.

And forgot every rule I had ever known.

Ruth Ahmed

#11. My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

Ruth Ahmed

#12. I needed a fresh start, away from the memories that we had made for him, away from the home that didn't feel like my own anymore.

Away from the people that had been ready to welcome him.

Away from Honour and Ali.

Ruth Ahmed

#13. They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.

I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?

Ruth Ahmed

#14. I said I love you about a million times. Maybe not the actual words, but in every other way.

Ruth Ahmed

#15. There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.

Ruth Ahmed

#16. The fire within her, and her soul, were eclipsing my own.

Ruth Ahmed

#17. It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.

No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself.

Ruth Ahmed

#18. Are you happy?' she asked.
'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.

Ruth Ahmed

#19. The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

Ruth Ahmed

#20. Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Joe Taslim

#21. I drank in his smell, I'd missed him so much more than I'd realised. Despite dreaming of him every night, besides my secret habit of writing Honour Hussain in curled scripts on every scrap piece of paper, I surprised myself by how much I needed him.

Ruth Ahmed

#22. The evening that Al and I met became the night that we met. By the time we fell asleep at daybreak we were different people

Ruth Ahmed

#23. As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Budd Schulberg

#24. He looked straight at me and winked. On anyone else it would have looked ridiculous - 1996 had moved beyond the language of winking at girls.

Ruth Ahmed

#25. This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

Elbert Hubbard

#27. The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well.

Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?

Ruth Ahmed

#28. Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe?

Ruth Ahmed

#29. I've spent my life comparing myself to everyone around me. I've made it an art form. I've developed detailed systems to calculate where I stand, based on GPA, body mass index, fashion, popularity, family income, etc. Based on this criteria, I have always fared somewhere in the safe middle.

Amy Reed

#30. People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.

Ruth Ahmed

#31. 9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?

No. No. No.

Ruth Ahmed

#32. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#33. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Dalai Lama