Laila Ibrahim > Quotes

“Focus on bearing, and beauty will follow. Your looks will not remain with you for life. But your bearing will go with you to the grave.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“It will seem impossible to take the first step. But on the second step, since you already did one, you know you can take another. Then another and another. Before long you will have walked into your new life.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“But I know a good man make life more sweet. Someone to hold you and love you, someone to share your dreams with, someone kind and thoughtful. A good man’s a treasure.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Work hard, be kind, be humble—and you will live a harmonious life.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“We do not know our fate. This may be a forever goodbye; it may only be for years. My love for you will never waver, however long or however far.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“This is as true a story as has ever been told: the story of my love for Mattie, and, I suppose, her love for me in return.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“As far as I concerned, God loves ever’body so God forgives ever’body so ever’body gonna get to heaven.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Every time I see the moon, I shall send you a blessing, knowing the same moon will soon shine my blessing down upon you.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“You eat from trees you did not plant and are obliged to plant trees you will not eat from.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Golden Poppies

“there would always be flashes of beauty even in the midst of pain”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“I asked my husband to teach my daughters to read and write so we would know one another should we be parted.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“Do you care for any contemporary authors?” Matthew inquired. “I adore Jane Austen.” Matthew nodded. “I find her portrait of British society so accurate and yet so dreadful.” “I agree. It must be awful to be so bound by what society expects,” Lisbeth answered. “I am so glad to have been born in America, where one has freedom.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“They had believed they would marry progressive thinkers in Guangzhou—businessmen or scholars—who would be proud to have educated wives with natural feet.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“Mattie scoffed, “That sound like a foolish rule to me. How ya gonna know if you like being with a man if ya can’ laugh together?”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“A wife obeys her husband, yes,” Ahma instructed. “But a wise woman earns her own money and saves for the emergencies that a husband cannot see coming.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“Education was a luxury not prioritized in a time of war and famine.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“It's never foolish to have a dream. Even if it never comes to be. It can give you the hope you need to keep going”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“Compassion is nothing to be ashamed of”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“You don’ have to know how or why faith work—you jus’ got to make sure you find some when you feelin’ lost.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Mustard Seed

“May they be safe from all harm. May they be free from all suffering. May they know joy,”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“You cannot change that man, but you can learn the truth about the world and decide what kind of person you want to be.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Golden Poppies

“she was supposed to give up her own ancestors out of loyalty to her husband’s.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“Cholera was a common companion of war—and far more fatal than metal blades or bullets.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife

“If enough people put their drop of water in the same place, then we can make a flower bloom . . . right in the middle of the desert.” Jordan sighed. She wanted”
― Laila Ibrahim, Mustard Seed

“As Momma said, it was the cost of loving.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Golden Poppies

“An ugly truth is preferable to a beautiful lie.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Mustard Seed

“I know a good man make life more sweet. Someone to hold you and love you, someone to share your dreams with, someone kind and thoughtful. A good man’s a treasure.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Your mother is a precious soul and the earth will be diminished without her—though heaven will be rewarded with another angel.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Golden Poppies

“The joy of a simple life is the greatest satisfaction.”
― Laila Ibrahim

“Getting you to lose your hope the biggest weapon they gots. So our best weapon is to hold on to hope, however we can.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Mustard Seed