Quotes by : Ruth Ahmed

My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind....

Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.

The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been,

Do you have a girlfriend?''No,' I said quickly.Deny Honour again. Peter only denied Jesus three times.....

You feel well, Ali? You have a very faraway look on your face, beta,' my dad said. 'Like you have left....

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed....

The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV.....

9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and....

There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed....

Look, my son, she is so beautiful, she has fair skin and green eyes and brown hair.''She's English?'....