When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.

Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky.

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.