“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.”

“I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.”

“My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.Turned out, stories were just stories.I was on...”

“I called the desert into a storm.”

“I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first," I objected without thinking.”

“I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.”

“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”

“Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.”

“You dont know anything about me.No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are,...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”