“We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would ...”

“But war had a taming effect”

“What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.”

“To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.”

“An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.”

“He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.”

“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.”

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”