It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

The moon in her chariot of pearl

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

Give me inspiration over information.

NO NO NO!! FIVE! FIVE!

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.