Hiba > Hiba's Quotes

“Sometimes, the people we want to protect the most might not understand why we do the things we do. But that doesn't mean they love us any less. Only you can decide where your faith lies.”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

“If it were with a girl, I'd be telling you the same thing. Wrap it, Nicky. Always wrap it before you stick it anywhere". He tilted his head and squinted at his only son. "Or if it's stuck in you. It don't matter to me one way or another. What's that called? Bottoming? I don't care if you're a bottom or the other one. Use protection.”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

“You make my heart so full, I think I’ll die.”
― T.J. Klune

“Whoa," Nick breathed. "That was intense."
"I'm a drag queen who can turn into lightning. Everything I do is intense.”
― T.J. Klune

“Growing up, I realized quite quickly that people hate being called racist more than they hate racism itself.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I stop myself from apologizing-because what would I even be sorry for? Existing too loud?”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I hate how they have the power to kill my future, kill me. They treat my Black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that is dangerous and lethal, when really it’s them. The guys at the top powering everything.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I’m Chiamaka fucking Adebayo—I don’t need some prick telling me who I am and who I should be.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I didn’t invent this twisted system that pits us against each other and makes us do crappy things for status—but I do know how to play it.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“The smell of bitch-ass liar is nauseating.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I don’t straighten my hair because I hate it; I straighten it because everyone else hates it for me.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“And I won’t roll over and let someone else take my crown. Not in a million years.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“But I know dreams are dangerous; they give me too much false hope.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Even though I know I shouldn’t care, it annoys me that when girls know what they want and how they’re going to get it, they’re seen as cocky. But guys who know what they want? They’re confident or strong.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“By fire, by force”.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“No matter what I do, no matter how much I iron down the hair that springs from my scalp, or work as hard as I can, I’m always going to be other to them. Not good enough for this place I’ve tried to call home all my life.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“When you grow up like this, whether it’s in your nature or not, sometimes survival overpowers doing the right thing.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“We’ve all had f—cking hard lives — doesn’t mean I’m gonna be an asshole about it.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“They say love and hate are the same, just at different ends of the blade”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Note to self: Don’t delete numbers of the people you hate. They might come in handy someday.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“People love to reward conventionally attractive people.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I’m no longer Chi, but Chiamaka, daughter of a Nigerian mother who loves the hair on my head more than I ever could.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“The people at the top in high school get into the best colleges, get the best jobs, go on to run the country, and win Nobel Prizes. The rest end up with dead-end jobs, heart failure, and then have to start an affair with their assistant to create some excitement in their otherwise dull lives.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I can ‘fix' the kinks in my hair, but not the kinks in this whole system that hates me and Devon and everyone that looks like us.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I’m tired of having faith things will work out, only for any hope I have to be violently crushed.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I was sure that saying no to Belle’s The Notebook invite would dampen our new friendship, but she’s here, in front of me, making me all flustered and nervous. It’s almost as if I like her or something, in a more than friends way. But that’s absurd. Is it?”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Money can only get you so far; you need power and influence to go with it.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Sometimes I feel like I'm so lost in my own world, I don't notice the things that seem obvious to everyone else.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“But something I've realized is that very few things in this world are good.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I didn’t get voted Head Prefect for no reason,” I say. “You got voted because you kiss teachers’ asses—and I’m not irrational,” Devon mutters.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades