I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
some stories don't need telling
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.