In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.

It was autumn, the springtime of death.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.