They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?

As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.

The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.

My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

Do you have a girlfriend?''No, ' I said quickly.Deny Honour again. Peter only denied Jesus three times. I must have denied Honour like three thousand times.

Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe?

9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.

It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself.

My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun – be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool.

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally.

We in the Great White North but you can bite my White South!

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.