I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths.

Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.

I'm homesick. But I cannot go back to Syria. I lost everything. And I'm against the Syrian regime, so there is no way to go back. I'm really homesick.

Despite everything - despite all this hatred, despite all this misunderstanding between nations and civilizations - I think love is the end. Love is the end.

As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.

There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.

I write in Arabic and prefer writing my stories by hand. I need a cup of tea or coffee when I write. When I was in Syria, I was addicted to tea, but now I'm addicted to Starbucks.

It is very easy for us to make choices in life but the most difficult part is to follow those choices through “.

If you're as good as you're going to be, life's as good as it's going to get.

No statement about God is simply literally true. God is far more than can be measured described defined in ordinary language or pinned down to any particular happening.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

I'm sweetly broken, wholly surrendered.

Can I believe in that God too?

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.