Fatima Ali > Quotes

“We always think there will be time, and when time runs out, we are told that time itself will be the healer, that the pain will subside, that she is in a better place. But I only miss her more; the pain only seems to grow with time; the seed of her loss has bloomed into an orchard that I roam every day in search of her. I wish that people understood that no words can comfort, that there is no comfort to be had or given, and that is okay.”
― Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

“Instead of my bucket list book, this is the story of my abbreviated life, short but nonetheless possessing secret love, joy and pain, adventure and hard work, luck and its opposite”
― Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

“I didn't think I was so special, but actually that was the key: If this ordinary Pakistani girl could pursue the thing she loved most - cooking - and could make it to the tippy-top and do what she loved on TV, then what was to stop all of us little brown girls from carving out new paths, from calling attention to the hungry children, the silenced dreamers, the oddballs and rebels who long to go against the grain?”
― Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

“There is nothing more empowering than knowing - no, believing - that all you really need is you.”
― Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

“hen we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to indulge in the experiences of living. When that choice is yanked away from us, that's when we scramble to feel.”
― Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More