“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

“They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug”

“The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful”

“while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.”

“If you think you are powerless, then you are”

“All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essentia...”

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”