Afton

“The overarching message of Boqol Sawm was that this life is temporary. If you lived outside the dictates of the Prophet you would burn in hell for the duration of your real life, the afterlife. But if you lived righteously, Allah would reward you in paradise. And men in particular would receive special blessings if they became warriors for Allah.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

“Don’t lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I have no wish to talk nonsense."
"If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre