I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. p.147

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Love is blind. Especially in the morning, because I can't see a damn thing before having coffee.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.