“We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.”

“the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.”

“Thank you, I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift; B...”

“I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.”

“She loved beyond measure, When I was young I thought her cold. But in time I came to understand that she was too tender for the world shed been born into, I said. Sorrow gave Dalia an iron gift. Be...”

“I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect ...”

“You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.”

“Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.”