“My soul sees its equal in you.”

“Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of ...”

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

“Love isa 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.”

“My soul sees its equal in you.”

“Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of ...”

“Love isa shade of what I feel.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”