That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.