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Helga Crane had taught in Naxos for almost two years, at first with the keen joy and zest of those immature people who have dreamed dreams of doing good to their fellow men. But gradually this zest was blotted out, giving place to a deep
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“Now, listen . . . I’m not an easy woman to shock. I’m a sinner very much relying on the “Most Merciful” aspect of my Lord.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“For while the pious claim money doesn’t buy happiness, I can attest from personal experience that poverty buys nothing.”
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
“A woman can lower her gaze only so often without tripping over her feet.”
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
“People have this idea of mothers, that we are soft and gentle and sweet. As though the moment my daughter was laid on my breast, the phrase I would do anything did not take on a depth I could have never understood before.”
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
“I have traveled widely enough that I take everything written about “foreigners” with doubt and know better than to judge a community by their worst individuals.”
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
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