9 quotes found
“His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.”
“The distance had been evaporated by humor”
“Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.”
“It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.”
“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”
“Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.”
“God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.”
“Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".”
“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.”
