It was a sin. Kissing a guy who wasn't betrothed to her was wrong in every way. Everyone knew that. It was haram. Forbidden. You would go to hell for that...

On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

Peace without truth is a false peace.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

Property is impossible.

You can't run with vampires. 'Cuz they're fast." -Bella "Yea? well, we're faster.