Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

Courage is fear that prays.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.