The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.

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.

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

Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.

Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.