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.

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.

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

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

I think rage is so ugly.

Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back

Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.