Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.