So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

How do you eat your roots?

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!

Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do.

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

When you're happy, you don't count the years.

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.