You know the old bit, he said. You're on a deserted island. You can have five books. Which do you choose? I never thought I'd actually have to.
You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.
When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.
Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a...
Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
Out beyond ideasof wrongdoing and right doing,there is a field.I’ll meet you there.
Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore down mentally. What had he said? It seemed vital, suddenly, that she know.L...
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, t...
Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion.
It’s a dangerous business, making promises to kids.
It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that...
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.
But time, it is like a charm. You never have as much as you think.
But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, Hope, a treacherous illusion.
A person has to have a flaw somewhere.
I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.