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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.