I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

Trust in this life is a hard thing to earn and keep.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

If I could pick my wife by name, It'd be Whitney. That name just sounds right

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.