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

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

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.

Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought