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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.