Quotes from The Illegal Gardener

Sara Alexi ·  222 pages

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“Life makes so many choices for us.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


“Life depends on what is in your heart.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


“It is easy to think you’re OK if you don’t know what you’re missing.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


“she could only do what she had the knowledge and power to do at the time.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


“Aaman got taken for being illegal, you’ve tried to find him but haven’t had any luck, and you’re crying because you haven’t found him. That’s what it sounds like. Is that what’s going on?” “Yes.” “Are you crying over Aaman because he was a great gardener or did something happen between you guys?”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener



“She is surprised that she is still alive in this moment, that she has survived meeting with these feelings, that she has not been engulfed and eaten alive by the enormity of the pain.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


“to Sialkot. Mahmout is from the south, a world apart. Friends are irrelevant to his quest. Mahmout is grinning, as always. Mahmout slumps, yawning, onto the circular bench.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


“Juliet notices the insecurities rising within her – the demons of not being heard, the goblins of not being understood, the imps of not being considered important. The fight between them confuses her thinking into a shade of panic.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener


About the author

Sara Alexi
Born place: in Oxford, The United Kingdom
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